“A client named Fatty showed us what not to do with a snapping turtle! Ouch!” Kimmel wrote. Mike “Fatty” Linne was coincidentally discussing how snapping turtles bite when the one in his hand lunged ...

While it may seem shocking to see turtles seemingly lifeless beneath the ice, they are actually brumating, a survival ...

More than 7 million people watched a video of snapping turtles appearing frozen in an Iowa pond. They're wintering in a state called brumation.

When underwater creatures or objects can’t be seen in the watery depths some people are terrified and this fear has a name — ...

Only the snapping turtle and the painted turtle are really common across New York. Snappers are the largest New York freshwater turtle, reaching shell lengths of 19 inches and weights of 70 pounds.

Two officers braved the frigid waters to save the turtles from the cold waters after parts of the Panhandle got up to 10 ...

The Service did not propose critical habitat protections for the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, finding that doing so was ... comply with state best management practices to protect water quality ...

Water is life. It's the briny broth of our ... glaciers whose meltwater sustains vast populations are dwindling. The snapping turtle I met on my lane may have been looking for higher ground.