NEW ORLEANS -- It's a marvelously ugly beast, with spiked and ridged armor, a sharply hooked beak, a fishing lure in its mouth and a nasty bite. But the alligator snapping turtle's hard shell holds ...

On a sunny afternoon in late July, I spotted this turtle walking slowly across a grassy pond levee. This is a native water turtle called the common snapping turtle. It is our second-largest snapping ...

Why did the snapping turtle try to cross the road? At this time of year, the answer is likely because it wanted to lay some eggs. But what to do if you spot a snapping turtle, which can be aggressive ...

Two albino snapping turtles and another turtle born with two heads. Weird things happen in nature – or in a lab – that humans rarely see. But staff at a London-area conservation authority are getting ...

Virginia trapper Winston Marshall with the massive snapping turtle; the snapper's shell measured 18 inches in length. Photos via Facebook Chris Moore and Austin Rush were working at Green Top Sporting ...

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 ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Kansas wildlife specialists are gearing up to drop off another batch of alligator snapping turtles in a local river early next month. 27 News reached out to the Kansas Department of ...

The alligator snapping turtle, which is native to the rivers and swamps in Florida, the US, was discovered beside Urswick Tarn in Cumbria on Monday. Local councillor Denise Chamberlain retrieved the ...

Murdo Messer says when an injured snapping turtle rescued in Brookfield, N.S., was brought to the Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre last fall, he wasn't sure the creature would survive. The male ...

Oh, snap, guess what he saw? A dog walker in Cumbria, United Kingdom, came across an interesting creature last week. Denise Chamberlain, a parish councilor, saw a post on Facebook about the ...

Ontario seeing much higher level of turtle deaths and trauma from vehicle injuries this year.. The Turtle Trauma Centre, in the central Ontario city of Peterborough, is at maximum capacity in its ...