Tami Gingrich explores the unique qualities and lifecycle of snapping turtles, as egg-laying season is upon us in northeast ...

Lori Lilley rescued the turtles stranded by the lake reconstruction in Carsonia Park and she is not giving up.

Several birds other than owls are nocturnal ... bask in the same habitats. Snapping turtles and softshell turtles will occasionally crawl onto logs to sun themselves but are less likely to ...

Along the way, they face threats from predators such as birds, raccoons, and fish, which pose significant risks to their survival. Snapping turtles are a type of freshwater turtle known for their ...

DNR fisheries biologist Scott Heintzelman said females cross roadways in search of sandy areas to dig nests and sometimes ...

In the wild, snapping turtles are scavengers, so they snap up anything they can in a pond, including aquatic plants, fish, frogs, reptiles, birds, and small mammals. Snapping turtles help keep ...

birds and other predators. Low flows impact the turtles’ prey, too. Suwannee alligator snapping turtles feast on the river’s entire buffet: fish, mussels, acorns, carrion, frogs, palmetto ...

Lying tangled in the mud and scum at the bottom of the riverbed, comes the story of the Snapping Turtle and The Cattails. In a crook of the river somewhere in Louisiana, entrenched in live oaks and ...