While at Sam Rayburn Lake in East Texas with his guide Captain Kirk Kirkland, Art Weston, a state and world record fisherman from Kentucky, instead hooked a massive alligator snapping turtle that ...

Art Weston, state and world record fisherman ... a 200-plus-pound alligator snapping turtle," Weston said. ALLIGATOR GAR ...

The turtles are also easy prey for hunters that feed thriving world markets for the exhibition and consumption of the turtles. Early in the 20th century alligator snapping turtles were plentiful in ...

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 ...