What are the chances? In less than a week, two of our readers have sent us photos of an alligator with a turtle in its jaws. Last week, Casey Yarborough shared his photos of a gator on a Naples golf ...

Snapping turtles are large freshwater turtles that are unable to withdraw their head and legs fully into their shells, and so have extremely powerful jaws that they use to defend themselves with by ...

Turtles are often unfairly maligned as fish killers that ruin the ecosystems of our ponds, rivers, and streams. The facts are that many turtles are omnivores and consume large amounts of aquatic ...

Not far from where Casey Yarborough was playing golf on March 20 he said he heard a loud pop. "like a gun going off," Yarborough said. Yarborough, who lives in Fort Myers, was on a fairway and the ...

It’s a face only a mother could love. Well, a mother or a wildlife biologist. But if you ever get face-to-face with a 200-pound, 100 year-old alligator snapping turtle with its gaping jaws spread wide ...

Alligator snapping turtles have a hard, armor-like shell and a sharp beak. A 100-year-old giant alligator snapping turtle is at large after mysteriously disappearing somewhere along Interstate 40 in ...

A standoff between an alligator and a wake of hungry vultures was caught on video in a Florida marsh, and at the center of it was a dead turtle prime for the eating. It happened Sunday, Feb. 20, at ...

July 18 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Florida said a turtle with a fishing hook caught in its mouth was safely captured after several days of attempts. The Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife in ...