There is no single proven cause of soil eating (“geophagia”). There may be medical reasons (anaemia, underactive thyroid gland or an irritated digestive tract, perhaps due to a food allergy), or it ...

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 ...

You wouldn’t normally see the words “turtle” and “lightning-fast” in the same sentence, but common snapping turtles have skills that put Olympic athletes to shame. Although some people in the comments ...

A CHINESE villager who stumbled across a monstrous-looking turtle has been advised by experts to eat the creature instead of releasing it back into the wild. The animal later identified as a common ...

The turtle has to be handled carefully, says charity director Wayne May An animal conservationist wants laws on the sale of some rare breeds to be tightened after rescuing a "dangerous" turtle ...

This is the hair-raising moment a fiery turtle snaps back at a girl who thought she was petting a cute tortoise. She stumbled upon the scaly animal on a road at a Canadian wildlife reserve and decided ...

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 ...

A Minnesota woman and her daughter were left shocked during a fishing trip when they encountered a huge snapping turtle that was trying to steal their fish. Shala Holm shared pictures of the ...

An angler fishing for carp at a reservoir near Balsall Common got the shock of his life when he landed a giant North American turtle. The 25kg alligator snapping turtle, which is around two feet long, ...