CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Alligator snapping turtles are equipped with one of nature's original fishing lures. Softshell turtles have lost most of the hard, fingernail-like material in their shells. Box ...

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 ...

Over the squelching and sloshing of waders and the eggy smell of shallow wetland waters, Matt Allender bent down and caught something in his hand. He raised it triumphantly. “Found a turtle!” It’s a ...