Maximus, a ginormous 125-year-old alligator snapping turtle that staff loved to swim ... “The gentle giant of the North Carolina Zoo.” Max lived in the zoo’s Cypress Swamp since 2015 and ...

What started as a peaceful morning of gardening in a South Carolina retirement community ended with a woman fighting off an ...

A SHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — An alligator snapping turtle that was more than 100 years old died recently, according to a Facebook post by the North Carolina Zoo. The post does not specify the turtle ...

South Carolina ... for the alligator’s “southern camo.” “Oh the reptilian indignity!” Michael Bengtson wrote on Facebook. “That’s how I know I’m in the Carolina’s in the ...

In Kansas, the largest alligator snapping turtle recorded was 138 pounds. “You know, further south when you get into like Mississippi, Alabama down in there they are recording up to 200 pound ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, S.C. — A South Carolina woman fended off an alligator after authorities said it attacked her 77-year-old husband in their backyard in the Sun City Hilton Head community on ...