The Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, which only lives in Georgia and Florida’s Suwannee River Basin, was officially named to the threatened species list in the Federal Register on Thursday.

Following a petition and agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle as threatened under the ...

Snapping turtles typically range in size from 8 to 14 inches, with a record length of 19.3 inches, according to the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. They are usually ...

but more recent study supported splitting off the genetically distinct Suwannee alligator snapping turtle as a new species. The Suwannee snapper is found in its namesake Suwannee River basin in ...