Common snapping turtles can clamp down with ... Slide both hands under the hind end of the shell, letting your turtle’s tail dangle between them. Afterwards, clamp down on the carapace with ...

Only the snapping turtle and the painted turtle are really common across New York. Snappers are the largest New York freshwater turtle, reaching shell lengths of 19 inches and weights of 70 pounds.

A 25-to-30-pound common snapping turtle is considered large ... This specimen weighed just under 60 pounds with an 18-inch ...

A homeowner in suburban Virginia found a 48.6-pound common snapping turtle in his yard and feared the gargantuan reptile had been hit by a car, according to a Facebook post by the Richmond ...

The albino northern common snapping turtle is the highlight of ... "I have no hard feelings when handling medicine made from turtle shells," he says. "It is part of my job." ...

He and his family never would have guessed the new home would come with a band of brumating snapping turtles. When Oswalt noticed the snapping turtle that ... be a native and common species ...

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed protecting the alligator snapping turtle under the Endangered Species Act as a threatened species. This prehistoric-looking freshwater turtle is known ...