Checkout this adorable video of a couple rescuing a tiny baby snapping turtle. Katlin Rainey from Orlando, Florida, USA, had an unexpected encounter when she and her boyfriend came across a mini ...

Last week, biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission were out checking traps set for the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, Macrochelys suwanniensis, when they made a ...

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 ...

PHELAN, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY -- Not your usual golf-course hazard: A giant snapping turtle weighing 70 pounds was found wandering the streets near the La Caada Flintridge Country Club Thursday. The ...

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 ...