A record number of clutches of white-throated snapping turtles have been found along the Burnett River in Queensland's ...

The post, titled "Well this was a surprise," featured a couple of photos of the turtle that they affectionately called a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Footage of a plump snapping turtle relaxing along a Chicago waterway has gone viral after the man who filmed the well-fed reptile marveled at its size and nicknamed it "Chonkosaurus." Joey Santore was ...

A Kentucky angler has found himself back in Texas to reel in some massive monsters. Art Weston, state and world record fisherman, returned to Sam Rayburn Lake in the hope of setting another ...

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. Historians speculate ...

A snapping turtle that was found near a riverbank in Staffordshire, England, has been given a new home at the National Turtle Sanctuary within Lincolnshire Wildlife Park. The BBC reported that the ...

The turtle "struggled to keep his head up as water rushed over his body." — -- A 53-pound alligator snapping turtle was recently rescued after it was found wedged at the end of a pipe in a new ...