A Kentucky angler has found himself back in Texas to reel ... a 200-plus-pound alligator snapping turtle," Weston said.

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 ...