The Suwannee alligator snapping turtle fit right in among elephant-sized ... When waters fall Heavy, huge and hidden, adult alligator snappers have few natural predators. Their bony shells are ...

Snapping turtles are North America’s largest turtle species. Male alligator snappers can reach ... fishers and racoons. Even adult snapping turtles eat the little ones. Sometimes river otters ...

This means their survival depends on many adult turtles having many opportunities to mate ... tongues and occasionally surfacing to breathe. Historically, the alligator snapping turtle was considered ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The alligator snapping turtle, once a vital part of Kansas’ ecosystem, disappeared from the state’s wildlife scene more than 30 years ago. The last documented sighting ...

The state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) considers the alligator snapping turtle to be one ... he found it was just a regular 30-pound adult turtle. “The protection of isolated ...

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 ...

Denise Chamberlain, a parish councilor who had previously lived in Florida and keeps tortoises, recognized it right off: an alligator snapping turtle. “I looked at it and immediately thought ...

The snapping alligator turtle can reach 40 inches long and up to 180 pounds. A snapping alligator turtle-- with a bite fierce enough to sever human bone -- was mysteriously discovered an ocean ...

The Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle can only be found living in the Suwannee River Basin of Georgia and Florida and the population is officially on the decline, according to the press release.