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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can you see the baby snapping turtle? Nancy Hess took this photo at Caesar Creek State Park on July 28. Can you see the baby snapping turtle? Nancy Hess took this photo at Caesar Creek State Park on ...

Snapping turtles roamed the Earth, albeit slowly, millions of years before dinosaurs. They can live 75 or more years, and the biggest one caught in the wild weighed 68 pounds. Historians speculate ...

Samuel Crosby, 11, of Sharpsburg loves to fish in O’Hara Township Community Park. “I fish for anything,” the Dorseyville Middle School student said as he reeled in a not-too-happy-to-be-caught ...