I have a special interest in snapping turtles because I grew up within an easy commute of Philadelphia and went to college ...

When most people think of turtles, they picture slow, calm creatures that retreat into their shells at the slightest sign of danger. But not the Common Snapping Turtle! This vicious and aggressive ...

This stunning sea turtle isn’t albino—it's leucistic. Here's what makes this pale yellow turtle so rare and how it beat the ...

Still, even mock turtle soup has lost much of its popularity, and "it's probably related to both the textures and the taste," historian Henry Voigt tells the magazine.

Younger snapping turtles will walk along the water floor to find prey, while more mature snapping turtles typically wait for food to come to them, as seen in the video.

Never take a wild turtle home with you. Turtle species native to Delaware are prohibited from being owned as pets, according ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Police says that a common snapping turtle was seen on the Pend Oreille River.

During the 19th century, snapping turtles were part of enslaved folks’ diets in some areas of the country. But to satiate the country’s appetite for sea turtles, Americans turned to one of the ...

Alligator snapping turtles—Macroclemys temminckii— are the largest freshwater turtles in Texas and can live for a century or more. David Rosenbaum/Texas Parks and Wildlife Department By Ariana ...

Snapping turtle demonstration turns painful when ... The lunge and bite can happen “as quickly as 78 milliseconds/bite,” the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences ...

A man took two snapping turtles from Cedar Creek bar near the Heights to make soup and returned them following an outcry on social media. ... “Turtles are friends, not food,” San Miguel added.

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 ...