As soon as the ice is off the pond, I start looking for turtles. In this Moretown pond, the most common species to spot are ...

The main difference is the size, Riedle said. Common snapping turtles can usually reach around 30 to 40 pounds. In Kansas, the largest alligator snapping turtle recorded was 138 pounds.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following a petition and legal victory from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the alligator snapping turtle under ...

“Lot of the methods and the information that we had prior to the rush of alligator snapping turtle research over the past 20 years came from a guy named Al Redmond, who was the biggest poacher ...