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 ...

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 ...

RICE TWP. – Although the snapping turtle that Rick Koval and I caught wasn’t an enormous monster, it was a sign of things to come. The small snapper had a head and feet that seemed far too large for ...

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, reappeared earlier this week. The ...

My first sighting of a snapping turtle this spring seemed an auspicious start to turtle season. Some teenage boys had pulled their car to the side of the road, warning lights flashing, and were out ...

The snapping turtle eggs are finally hatching, and this video captures the exciting moment the baby turtles begin breaking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lane Oswalt wanted to play hockey on a frozen pond by his house. He looked down only to realize he was standing over snapping ...

A new wildlife tunnel in Eliot is quietly saving endangered Blanding’s turtles from a deadly stretch of Route 236.