A person was caught with live snapping turtles at a Westchester County reservoir after a police investigation revealed they had been illegally catching the animals, officials said. According to ...

A fisherman from Kentucky reeled in a monster-sized, 200-pound alligator snapping turtle in Texas before then catching a massive alligator gar that has been submitted for a world record.

In Indiana, the eastern snapping turtle, ... It also is legal to catch those turtles with nets, traps and hooks. All that is required is a hunting or fishing license.

Snapping turtles can bite, yes, ... I remember a biologist who was cleaning a research pond of snappers and managed to catch one that weighed just over 75 pounds.

Sort of cute, sort of creepy, turtles are a part of summer in Upper Michigan. We like to be in the turtle’s watery wonderland ...

Attempting a turtle trap is a new get-rich-quick scheme for the Walter Scott family since he learned of a business that buys snapping turtles for a dollar a pound. $2 for 6 months SUBSCRIBE NOW ...

CATCHING TURTLES IN A SOUTHERN SWAMP; "Snappers" Found in Lagoons on the Edge of Timber Land. HOOKS BAITED WITH LIVER Reptiles Deftly Lifted from the Water by Their Tails -- Feed on Snakes.

“This is very rare to catch on film because snapping turtles spend about 90 percent of their lives underwater,” Garig says.

An alligator snapping turtle that looks like something out of "Jurassic Park" has been found 5,000 miles away from its natural habitat in the U.S. South.

Snapping turtles roamed the Earth, albeit slowly, millions of years before dinosaurs. They can live 75 or more years, and the biggest one caught in the wild weighed 68 pounds.

Joe Clemens of Irwin has a dangerous hands-on hobby. Clemens is a fourth-generation turtle noodler, a pursuit where one catches snapping turtles with their bare hands from underwater holes in the ...