It isn’t just a viral darling, though. The fact that there are snappers in the once notoriously polluted Chicago River tells a vital story about the health of our waterways. Though some news reports ...

ELIOT, Maine — After fending off death, a critically-injured common snapping turtle struck by a motorist last year has been released back into the wild. The Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick has ...

The massive snapping turtle at the center of a now-viral video, fittingly named "Chonkosaurus," may have actually been a pretty rare sight for two kayakers on the Chicago River. The turtle was caught ...

You wouldn’t normally see the words “turtle” and “lightning-fast” in the same sentence, but common snapping turtles have skills that put Olympic athletes to shame. Although some people in the comments ...

ELIOT, Maine – After fending off death, a critically-injured common snapping turtle struck by a motorist last year has been released back into the wild. The Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick, Maine, ...

Memorial Day is the unofficial start of summer bringing beach weather as residents flock to lakes and riversides to cool off — be it for fishing, kayaking or just enjoying a good swim. But as humans ...

A man has impressed viewers after sharing a video of him handling an alligator snapping turtle online. Chris Leone and his wife, Casey, run the rescue and breeding facility Garden State Tortoise in ...

Many cultures tell fascinating tales about turtles. Several North American Native tribes speak of a great turtle floating in a primal sea, before there was any land. Here lived all the other animals ...