Only the snapping turtle and the painted turtle are really common across ... summer to locate nesting sites where they lay between 20 and 80 ping pong ball-shaped eggs. Unfortunately, many of the ...

This wasn’t just any snapping turtle, this was a mother snapping turtle — and she was guarding all of her eggs. Stracher knew what she had to do. “If they were going to excavate the area ...

As the warm days of spring arrive, turtles begin searching for mates. Soon, they’ll be out searching for suitable nesting spots as well.

Researchers from the Burnett Mary Regional Group (BMRG) have partnered with Taribelang Aboriginal Corporation (TAC), WYLD ...

Harvesting turtles is particularly damaging because turtles have low fertility, low egg and hatchling survival and delayed ... special rule that prohibits the taking of Suwannee alligator snapping ...

Early in the 20th century, alligator snapping turtles were plentiful in river systems ... Trapping is particularly damaging because turtles have low fertility, low egg and hatchling survival, and ...