I saw a big turtle near a place called Hardscrabble in southern Delaware. It crouched on the edge of Route 20. As I whizzed by, I assayed its chances of making it alive to the other side. They were ...

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Samuel Crosby, 11, of Sharpsburg loves to fish in O’Hara Township Community Park. “I fish for anything,” the Dorseyville Middle School student said as he reeled in a not-too-happy-to-be-caught ...

Fort Fisher, NC — World Turtle Day is May 23, 2023, and it is a great time to Shellabrate at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher (NCAFF). Visitors with advanced tickets can join the ...

The San Diego Turtle and Tortoise Society will entertain visitors with the antics of the California desert tortoises (an endangered state reptile) and many other species of turtles and tortoises ...

A lot of turtle soup has come from the sloughs and backwaters of the Upper Mississippi, a favorite habitat of the American snapping turtle, a reptile, that fears only man. Snapper hunting in winter is ...

Meet the star of Schramm Education Center’s aquarium, Big Snap Daddy. Weighing 98 pounds, he is considered the world’s largest common snapping turtle. He also is estimated to be more than 90 years old ...

MONROE COUNTY, Ind.— There is no man-eating snap turtle in Monroe Lake. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources Division of Fish and Wildlife says a viral Facebook post claiming that a ...

Just before noon on a recent Tuesday, a Sunlight Shores-area woman walked into Parent's office in Freeland with a plastic laundry basket. Inside: a turtle. A very big turtle. "It was probably 15 to 20 ...

This week's drastic drop in temperatures not only affects us, but all kinds of animals around us, especially marine animals ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A 65-pound alligator snapping turtle with a face only its mother could love has found a new home at a Virginia zoo after freaking out residents in a northern Virginia suburb.