Snapping turtles are out and about in Northeast Wisconsin. Nesting season began recently and runs through mid-July.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Police says that a common snapping turtle was seen on the Pend Oreille River.

Snapping turtles are opportunistic omnivores that will eat almost anything in the pond. While they prefer meat, including worms, snails, fish, birds, small mammals, other turtles, and frogs, 30 ...

The FWC says it could take decades for the alligator snapping turtle to return to its pre-1970 population size. And the Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle’s population is even smaller.

The common snapping turtle is infamous for being one of the most aggressive and powerful turtles in the world. Unlike the typical calm and slow-moving turtle you might imagine, this species ...

The famed snapping turtle, dubbed “Chonkosaurus” by internet commentators when pictures of her basking on a Chicago River pylon first went viral in summer 2023, has reappeared.

A massive snapping turtle nicknamed "Chonkasaurus" spotted by a Windy City resident sunbathing in the Chicago River is gaining internet popularity. "Great to see this beast thriving here on what ...

Common snapping turtles can clamp down with up to 656.81 newtons (N) of force, though typical bites register an average of 209 N. Their alligator-like cousins usually exert 158 N.

Alligator snapping turtles are the largest of all turtle species, but they usually only grow to around 2 feet, or slightly over. The Fish and Wildlife division of the Indiana Department of Natural ...

It’s the largest freshwater turtle in North America and one that looks downright prehistoric. But this “dinosaur” of a turtle, as it’s often called, which only lives in the Suwannee River ...

A snapping alligator turtle-- with a bite fierce enough to sever human bone -- was mysteriously discovered an ocean away from its natural habitat.. Dr. Dominic Moule, a veterinary surgeon at Wild ...