The creature at hand was an alligator snapping turtle: spikey and iron-jawed ... from the field and from museum collections. They found a variety of differences, most notably that specimens ...

but more recent research supported splitting off the genetically distinct Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, which is found in its namesake Suwannee River basin in southern Georgia and northern ...

More than six months after their first reintroduction into Kansas waterways, the alligator snapping turtles seem to be settling into their new home.