The alligator snapping turtle in this clip has everything he needs to go fishing. The bait is a part of his body, and his lightning-quick ‘snap’ is too fast for most prey to escape from. All he has to ...

A Kentucky angler has found himself back in Texas to reel in some massive monsters. Art Weston, state and world record fisherman, returned to Sam Rayburn Lake in the hope of setting another ...

A person was caught with live snapping turtles at a Westchester County reservoir after a police investigation revealed they had been illegally catching the animals, officials said. According to ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is doubling its reward to catch poachers of a threatened reptile species, the alligator snapping turtles. The reward is $1,000 and can be increased to $2,000 if ...

An alligator snapping turtle that looks like something out of "Jurassic Park" has been found 5,000 miles away from its natural habitat in the U.S. South. A dogwalker spotted the turtle last week in a ...

CHARLES CITY, Va. (AP) — In water to his waist and mud to his calves, Ben Colteaux pulled up a net and found a stinky monster. Colteaux had caught a snapping turtle, Virginia’s largest freshwater ...

The backyard drama last week wasn't exactly cat-and-mouse. Imitating his purring ancestors, the neighborhood's resident black-and-white feline warily crept across wet grass to get a closer look at an ...

Snapping turtles are opportunistic omnivores that will eat almost anything in the pond. While they prefer meat, including worms, snails, fish, birds, small mammals, other turtles, and frogs, 30 ...