Alligator snapping turtles, like the one seen in this file photo, were classified as endangered in Kansas in 1974. The state has begun a reintroduction program to bring the creatures back to ...

A Common Snapping Turtle, Chelydra serpentina, laying eggs at road edge Common snapping turtle in Ontario Canada. The common snapping turtle is now a threatened species in Ontario Snapping turtle ...

White-throated snapping turtles are endangered freshwater turtles thought to be found only in three Queensland river systems. After finding a new population in Baffle Creek two years ago ...

A massive snapping turtle was caught on video crossing an apartment complex parking lot in Jeffersonville Saturday.Watch the large reptile making its way along in the video player above.The person ...

CNBC Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman joins Nicolle Wallace to discuss the market's reaction to new comments on Donald Trump's tariffs from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, primarily that ...

Mexican box turtles. Image by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters ... representing a sophisticated health maintenance system that humans have only recently begun to understand. Alligator ...

Greg Wittstock the pond guy came to visit the zoo, and we decided to do a little check up on our huge alligator snapping turtle ... Pope Francis, the first pontiff from the Americas, dies at 88 ...

By comparison, the largest land turtle is the alligator snapping turtle, which reaches a length of 30 inches and a weight of 225 pounds. Even the largest freshwater turtle — the Yangtze softshell ...

ROSWELL, Ga. — A Roswell firefighter jumped into action to rescue a snapping turtle along Crabapple Road on Tuesday. The Roswell Fire Department said firefighter Kyle Phillips from Engine 22 saw ...

Jim Spinale, 91, is a retired science teacher who volunteers at the So. Shore YMCA Nature Center. His snapping turtle shell is a hit with preschoolers ...

Scientists can take small, non-invasive samples from different growth rings of the shell to analyze metal concentrations from different periods in the turtle’s life. This technique has proven ...