There could be dozens of them in your local creek. Snapping turtles are the largest freshwater turtles in North America. And ...

Turtles in SW Florida often end up on highways and other roads. Awareness of their presence is important as is knowing how to ...

Before anyone cancels their afternoon walk at Stratford Woods Park, you should know the whole story about the “alligator” that’s been making the rounds on Midland-area social media. Posts have ranged ...

Turtles possess several biological and ecological characteristics that make them exceptionally well-suited for environmental monitoring. As long-lived species—with many freshwater turtles living 30-40 ...

Federal officials are warning rafters to watch out for and report invasive snapping turtles that have been multiplying in southern Oregon’s Rogue River. The turtles can harm native wildlife, including ...

"It was quite funny to be honest — me and my nan were just holding them in the garden," George Cheetham said of the devices Kennedy News and Media George Cheetham was cleaning out his grandmother's ...

May 22 (UPI) --Wildlife officials in Massachusetts were called out to an Essex County pond to capture an unusual non-native animal: a nearly 60-pound alligator snapping turtle. The Massachusetts ...

Earlier this spring an Essex County resident notified MassWildlife of a snapping turtle acting oddly in their yard and asked for help. What MassWildlife staff found was a female alligator snapping ...

AVERILL PARK, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A nearly 70-year-old injured snapping turtle has passed away at a Massachusetts rescue after being saved from Methodist Farm Road in Averill Park on Tuesday. The ...

AVERILL PARK, N.Y. (WNYT)- The Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office said deputies helped rescue an injured snapping turtle after Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple found it on a road in Averill Park.

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (WOOD) — Doug the Tank, a snapping turtle that went viral across West Michigan, has been released back in the wild. The Michigan Amphibian & Reptile Sanctuary announced that the ...

A snapping turtle that apparently had been displaced by spring flooding has been rescued from the Lake Michigan shoreline and placed back into more suitable habitat. “Doug the Tank”, a 33-pound ...