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 ...

Joe Clemens of Irwin has a dangerous hands-on hobby. Clemens is a fourth-generation turtle noodler, a pursuit where one catches snapping turtles with their bare hands from underwater holes in the ...

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 ...

Travis Thomas grew up on the Santa Fe River, but never imagined he’d lean over its glassy waters and hoist up a 65-pound prehistoric beast. The creature at hand was an alligator snapping turtle: ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — This animal put the “snappy” in snapping turtle. A snapping turtle did not appear too happy to receive a helping hand off of a Tennessee road earlier this month. A man is seen ...

A member of the largest freshwater turtle species in the world with the power to bite through bone has been discovered in the United Kingdom – thousands of miles from its native home in the United ...