A dogwalker spotted the turtle last week in a northwestern English pond called Urswick Tarn, about 5,000 miles from its native habitat in the South.

The alligator snapping turtle also has a shorter neck, meaning they cannot swing their heads backward to bite. "He simply opens his huge mouth as a display to warn anything looking to hurt him ...

The most prominent feature of both species, though, is their snapper, as common snapping turtles can chomp with a bite force of 209 Newtons on average, while alligator snappers clamp their jaws ...

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 ...

New population of alligator snapping turtles has been found in Florida river and researchers are trying to find out how they got there.

You wouldn’t normally see the words “turtle” and “lightning-fast” in the same sentence, but common snapping turtles have ...

Their beak-like mouth has “a bite force of 1,000 pounds,” making their jaws capable of snapping bones, the National Wildlife Federation reports.

Alligator snapping turtles are not known to attack people, but their bite force is so powerful it can snap through bone (Getty Images) ...

A dogwalker spotted the turtle last week in a northwestern English pond called Urswick Tarn, about 5,000 miles from its native habitat in the South.

An invasive alligator snapping turtle — a creature native to Florida and known for its mean bite — was discovered in the county of Cumbria in the northwest United Kingdom, where a local ...

New population of alligator snapping turtles has been found in Florida river and researchers are trying to find out how they got there.