Yabrough estimated the alligator to be around 14 feet long, and the turtle weighed about 50 pounds. He heard the sound of the alligator's jaws crushing the turtle's shell, which stunned him.

Sea Turtle with 3D-Printed Shell Piece Continues to Thrive Years After Innovative Procedure. ... The turtle now weighs a much healthier 210 pounds and is sporting a large, healthy-looking shell.

You wouldn’t normally see the words “turtle” and “lightning-fast” in the same sentence, but common snapping turtles have ...

Their mottled shells are a beautiful variety of brown ... They feed on soft-bodied marine life like jellyfish. Loggerhead sea ...

Thanks to their large size and hard shells, sea turtles don’t have many natural predators. However, one species of predatory shark has Young Boaters Save a Sea Turtle From the Jaws of a Tiger Shark ...

A small green sea turtle with a large hitchhiker was rescued last week off Florida’s Port St. Lucie. The turtle was found with a 300 gram Giant Eastern Murex attached to its shell -- a weight ...

The famed snapping turtle, dubbed “Chonkosaurus” by internet commentators when pictures of her basking on a Chicago River pylon first went viral in summer 2023, has reappeared.

The dawn beak turtle had a beak but no shell, but modern turtles have all of the above. This strongly hints that the evolution of the species we see on Earth today is likely far more complicated ...

Large turtle resembling '23 viral sensation spotted on Chicago River A Reddit user captured video of a snapping turtle Saturday near Chonkosaurus’ chomping grounds around Goose Island. By Kade ...