A Kentucky angler has found himself back in Texas to reel in some massive monsters. Art Weston, state and world record fisherman, returned to Sam Rayburn Lake in the hope of setting another ...

Joe Clemens of Irwin has a dangerous hands-on hobby. Clemens is a fourth-generation turtle noodler, a pursuit where one catches snapping turtles with their bare hands from underwater holes in the ...

Move over, one-eyed, one-horned, flying, purple people eater. There's a new long-named, possibly flesh-eating monster on the block. Lake Lemon's folklore based in truth: Where is Cemetery Island? A ...

RICE TWP. – Although the snapping turtle that Rick Koval and I caught wasn’t an enormous monster, it was a sign of things to come. The small snapper had a head and feet that seemed far too large for ...

For once, Florida is invading the United Kingdom. A dog walker in Cumbria in northwest England spotted something bizarre and prehistoric-looking in a small local lake and asked about it on Facebook.

The species is listed as threatened and harvesting the turtles is illegal in Texas, so Weston and Kirkland had to safely release it back into the water unharmed. To do so, the fishing duo had to ...

Snapping turtles are opportunistic omnivores that will eat almost anything in the pond. While they prefer meat, including worms, snails, fish, birds, small mammals, other turtles, and frogs, 30 ...

The U.S. government is proposing a new level of protection for certain freshwater turtles, concerned that a massive increase in overseas demand for the reptiles could hurt their long-term prospects.