and fishermen are required to release the fish as close to the place where they caught them as possible. They day after ...

Before 40 of the creatures were released into the Neosho River in September, the snapping turtle ... Fish and Wildlife Service at a hatchery facility in Tishomingo, Okla., in 1999. Since then ...

Kansas wildlife specialists are gearing up to drop off another batch of alligator snapping turtles in a local river early next month. 27 News reached out to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks ...

The turtles chomp on static lines set to catch fish in rivers, perforating their digestive system or drowning them. Poaching and commercial harvest for turtle soup decimated alligator snapping ...

An angler may have broken a world record after reeling in a massive prehistoric-looking fish. Art Weston, a Kentucky resident, went to Lake Livingston, Texas, to catch an alligator gar with the ...

There was probably a less than 1% chance of catching the massive fish on the line, he also said. Last May, Weston and Kirkland accidently reeled in a 200-pound alligator snapping turtle while ...

While rare, alligator attacks can happen. Here are five ways to stay safe around alligators in Florida waters.

Calling it the “most challenging catch of my life,” Weston spent nearly four hours reeling in the fish. With the ... catch a 200-plus-pound alligator snapping turtle with Kirkland’s help ...

The United States Geological Survey provides a map showing the range of the American alligator ... find snapping turtles, river otters, snakes, crawfish, and many different species of fish.

Art Weston’s latest potential world record alligator gar should have never been landed. And I mean that in the sense that it’s virtually impossible he was able to reel the fish in ... this 200+ pound ...

This combination of extreme camouflage and specialized feeding adaptation makes them one ... that humans have only recently begun to understand. Alligator snapping turtle. Image by Gary M. Stolz/U.S.