A massive alligator snapping turtle was found in a suburban residential area in Virginia, hundreds of miles from where the species is considered native. The creature, nicknamed Lord Fairfax, was ...

Jul. 3—"Why did the turtle cross the road?" "To get to the Shell station," is how one version of the joke goes. The reality is turtles cross roads all of the time. And judging by the evidence of the ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - More than a dozen baby snapping turtles were found during routine garden work at a local hospice facility. And people at Hospice of Northwest Ohio are welcoming them to stay.

According to the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the alligator snapping turtle is native to river drainages that flow in the Gulf of Mexico, east to Georgia and the panhandle of ...

A 65-pound alligator snapping turtle with a face only its mother could love has found a new home at a Virginia zoo after freaking out residents in a Northern Virginia suburb. The turtle, dubbed Lord ...

Why did the turtle cross the road?Massachusetts Environmental Police and Massachusetts State Police were working to find out the answer Friday morning in Braintree. Officers said they rescued a large ...

The backyard drama last week wasn't exactly cat-and-mouse. Imitating his purring ancestors, the neighborhood's resident black-and-white feline warily crept across wet grass to get a closer look at an ...