Harvesting turtles is particularly damaging because turtles have low fertility, low egg and hatchling survival and delayed maturity. ... Historically, the alligator snapping turtle was considered a ...

Snapping turtles are North America’s largest turtle species. Male alligator snappers can reach up to 29 inches long and weigh up to 250 pounds. Common snappers can reach about a third that size ...

Juvenile Alligator Snapping Turtles raised at the Tishomingo hatchery will be tagged and released back into a segment of the Neosho River," said a Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks press ...

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.

Alligator snapping turtles were once common in the Verdigris and Neosho Rivers in Kansas but were largely absent from the state by 1991. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

A snapping alligator turtle-- with a bite fierce enough to sever human bone -- was mysteriously discovered an ocean away from its natural habitat.. Dr. Dominic Moule, a veterinary surgeon at Wild ...

Alligator snapping turtles: The bigger and badder species Not so for their extremely oversized cousins, alligator snapping turtles. These critters can grow to enormous sizes, with many weighing in ...

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) -- When the state decided to bring back the river otter a few years ago, public response was enthusiastic.

Alligator snapping turtles can weigh more than 200 pounds, so it’s tough to imagine a new population has just been discovered in Florida’s Homosassa River.. Where they came from and how they ...

He says the turtle’s fearsome mouth was wide open while they worked to unhook the turtle, which they planned to release unharmed. They estimated its weight around 200 pounds, which puts it in the ...