An alligator snapping turtle’s beak is capable of slicing ... Between fishy meals, aquatic plants also factor into their diet, as do frogs, snakes, snails, crayfish, and even relatively large ...

Snapping turtles are North America’s largest turtle species. Male alligator snappers can reach ... Because they have such a varied diet, and because they tend to eat smaller fish, not mature ...

Their diet mostly consists of dead fish and ... cut the line immediately to set the turtle free. Alligator snapping turtle sightings are unheard of in Kansas in recent decades, and they will ...

"The only consolation was a very unusual and unplanned catch: a 200-plus-pound alligator snapping turtle," Weston said. "When the turtle took the bait, Kirk had a good idea it was a turtle based ...

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 ...

Talk about the catch of a lifetime. A fisherman in Texas reeled in a massive alligator snapping turtle while he was celebrating Father’s Day. Justin Broomhall, 25, of Longview, Texas ...

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 ...

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.

Alligator snapping turtles have a hard, armor-like shell and a sharp beak. A 100-year-old giant alligator snapping turtle is at large after mysteriously disappearing somewhere along Interstate 40 ...

Their diet mostly consists of dead fish and ... “All bites are the result of humans attempting to handle the turtle.” Alligator snapping turtle sightings are unheard of in Kansas in recent ...