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 ...

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 ...

How such a turtle got into a Bavarian lake remains a mystery Residents of a German town have joined a determined search for a turtle blamed for an attack on a young swimmer. A lake was drained at the ...

Turtles aren’t known for their speed. In fact, it’s usually quite the opposite. (Slow and steady wins the race and all that.) But one type of turtle is actually incredibly quick, at least with its ...

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