The alligator snapping turtle in this clip has everything he needs to go fishing. The bait is a part of his body, and his lightning-quick ‘snap’ is too fast for most prey to escape from. All he has to ...

Wildlife conservationists in Florida stumbled across an enormous species of turtle that looks like it crawled out of a monster movie. Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation ...

An Alligator Snapping Turtle, usually found in rivers of North America, which was caught by keen angler Drew Hammond at Earlswood Lakes in Birmingham Credit: Photo: NEWSTEAM Drew Hammonds, 37, from ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Monday that it is proposing threatened status for alligator snapping turtles -- huge, spike-shelled reptiles t that lurk at the bottom of lakes and slow ...

Snapping turtles are not the kind of animal that most people think of as “cute” with their funnel-shaped noses, thick, warty bodies, and armored tails. Box turtles are cute. Sea turtles are adorable.

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas wildlife specialists are gearing up to drop off another batch of alligator snapping turtles in a local river early next month. 27 News reached out to the Kansas Department of ...

A large aggressive snapping turtle with a "strong bite" has been found and rescued from a river next to an Asda store. The feisty reptile, which is over 50cm long, was discovered by a man walking with ...

Snapping turtles are large freshwater turtles that are unable to withdraw their head and legs fully into their shells, and so have extremely powerful jaws that they use to defend themselves with by ...

The turtle has been named Hagar and now lives at a wildlife park (Picture: SWNS) A man found an ‘angry’ snapping turtle in the River Trent and then took it home and put it in his bathtub. The ...

THE biggest ever snapping turtle weighing 100 pounds was caught last week by stunned wildlife conservationists in a Florida river. Researchers said the turtle is a new species, known formally as ...