The snapping turtle began to choke on the cattails’ seeds. He tore away at his uncatchable prey until he was too weak and breathless to continue. When the moon found its place in the star-speckled sky ...

A fisherman from Kentucky reeled in a monster-sized, 200-pound alligator snapping turtle in Texas; he also caught a massive alligator gar that has been submitted for a world record.

A Kentucky fisherman has reeled in an enormous 200-pound prehistoric alligator snapping turtle and a potentially record-breaking gar at a lake in Texas.. Art Weston and his trusted guide, Captain ...

Art Weston and Capt. Kirk Kirkland teamed up to land yet another pending world-record alligator gar that should add to Weston's long list of line-class records. But the alligator snapping turtle ...

It took Art about 30 minutes to bring the turtle up, and it wasn’t very happy.” The giant turtle was hooked in one of its front feet. This is common with turtles, Kirkland says, as they typically claw ...

Snapping turtles are one of the oldest types of turtle around, having been around for approximately 200 million years – even during the time of the dinosaurs! The species also has a lifespan of ...

A demonstration of how not to handle a snapping turtle turned into a cringe-inducing illustration when the turtle bit its handler and refused to let go.. A video of the incident was posted Jan. 30 ...

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 ...

An alligator snapping turtle that looks like something out of "Jurassic Park" has been found 5,000 miles away from its natural habitat in the U.S. South.

A snapping alligator turtle-- with a bite fierce enough to sever human bone -- was mysteriously discovered an ocean away from its natural habitat.. Dr. Dominic Moule, a veterinary surgeon at Wild ...