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 ...

Grégory Bulté, an Ottawa-area biologist, holds a map turtle shell that shows the distinctive 'map' pattern that gives the turtle its name. (Dan Taekema/CBC - image credit) The northern map turtle is ...

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 ...

Researchers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission captured a 100-pound alligator snapping turtleCredit: fwc.com The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation (FWC) said researchers ...

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 ...

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 ...