You wouldn’t normally see the words “turtle” and “lightning-fast” in the same sentence, but common snapping turtles have ...

These turtles are called snapping turtles, ... If you must pick up a snapping turtle, place your hands above each back leg and try to avoid the sharp claws on the turtle’s feet.

Snapping turtles are native to Colorado mostly above 5,500 feet. Boulder residents are being warned that this time of year they could be especially dangerous because female snapping turtles are ...

Look at that turtle. It is one large turtle. A guy in Oklahoma named Dave Harrell posted the above photo to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's Facebook page. It shows a large ...

In honor of World Turtle Day, here are 10 things you might not have known about snapping turtles. 1. ... in two places: right behind the head and right above the tail.

A wounded 53-pound snapping turtle is recovering at a Houston wildlife rehabilitation center after fire-rescue crews saved it from a drainage pipe.

A 53-pound snapping turtle is recovering at a Houston wildlife rehabilitation center after fire-rescue crews saved it from a drainage pipe. ... which had struggled to keep its head above water.

The snake was able to poke its head above the surface to breathe, even brandishing its fangs threateningly toward the camera at one point, ... Snapping turtles mature around 11 to 13 years old.

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.

The turtle is probably about 50 years old and has finished hibernating, Mr. Anchor said. While he did describe Chonkosaurus as “very large,” the snapping turtle is not among the largest he’s ...

This has been a chompin` good winter for ice turtling along the Mississippi bottomlands, according to Jerry Rodhouse.As the Pike County farmer packed six more quarts of delicious snapping turtle ...