Jim Spinale, 91, is a retired science teacher who volunteers at the So. Shore YMCA Nature Center. His snapping turtle shell is a hit with preschoolers ...

Kansas wildlife officials are preparing to release more of a rarely seen species after initial success last year. Staff with ...

Maximus, a ginormous 125-year-old alligator snapping turtle that staff loved to swim with and who brought smiles to thousands ...

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A Pennsylvania man was caught with a turtle concealed in his pants when a Transportation Security Administration body scanner triggered an alarm near his groin on Friday, March 7 at Newark Liberty ...

The PFBC also deals with people who no longer want a fish or turtle and release them into ... summer we have incidents of where someone has an alligator as a pet and they couldn’t afford that ...

Although not their number one choice of meal, an adult crocodile could easily crunch right through a turtle’s shell with its powerful bite. Although the adult sliders are safe, their hatchlings are ...

In brief: they've grown thicker shells. The paper documents two sets of field experiments, conducted 20 years apart, measuring the thickness and plasticity in samples of tidal snails. The first ...

and their shells can grow over two feet long. As their name suggests, alligator snapping turtles do one thing very well—snap. They live in both the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, where they eat a ...

Alligator attacks are extremely rare here in Florida with only about 8 unprovoked attacks occurring each year on average but those statistics won’t matter to a man and woman who were attacked by an ...

STAN HONDA/AFP via Getty A woman has been hospitalized after getting attacked by an alligator in Florida, according to reports. The unidentified victim was “bitten on the elbow” while ...