Bone Crusher, the Greensboro Science Center’s alligator snapping turtle ... Originally from Texas and Louisiana, these turtles can grow over 200 pounds and live up to 120 years.

in 1999. Since then, alligator snapping turtles have been reintroduced to Illinois, Tennessee, Louisiana and Oklahoma, where Riedle first began his work. “The whole idea was to ... breed and hop ...

Early in the 20th century, alligator snapping turtles were plentiful in river systems draining into the Gulf of Mexico, from the waterways and lakes of the Midwest to the swamps and bayous of Florida, ...

Early in the 20th century alligator snapping turtles were plentiful in U.S. river systems draining into the Gulf of Mexico, from the waterways and lakes of the upper Midwest to the swamps and bayous ...