Here lived all the other animals piled upon its massive shell, drifting and waiting. As the story suggests, turtles have been around for millions of years, coming into being, like many other modern ...

Snapping turtle jaw strength—while nothing to sneeze ... If it’s an alligator snapper, you’ll want to grasp the lip of the upper shell (or “carapace”) in two places: right behind the ...

More than 7 million people watched a video of snapping turtles appearing frozen in an Iowa pond. They're wintering in a state called brumation.

That led to them discovering the specimen was a completely new species of snapping turtle — a large carnivorous turtle, long extinct, that they named Elseya mudburra. "[The carapace] is made up ...

“Only finding a very old and healed carapace fracture we determined ... The laboratory adds in its online profile of the common snapping turtle that the omnivores occasionally “may move ...

these prehistoric-looking freshwater turtles are known for their spiked shell, large claws and strong, beaked jaws. Alligator snappers spend much of their time underwater, attracting prey with ...

PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following a petition and legal victory from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the alligator snapping turtle under the ...