Strictly speaking, she's supposed to stay in her water-filled basin, with a basin ... and I can picture her basking, enjoying her time with us." Turtle Rescue League accepts visitors by ...

For this study a team of researchers from around the world put cameras on basking logs to monitor the nocturnal activity of as many freshwater turtle species as possible. Cameras taking one photo ...

In it, the authors document nocturnal basking in six families of freshwater turtle species, occurring in Central America, Trinidad and Tobago, Seychelles, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Postdoctoral ...

The Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, which only lives in Georgia and Florida’s Suwannee River Basin, was officially named to the threatened species list in the Federal Register on Thursday.

Kayaker Joey Cantore shared a video of the mammoth Snapping Turtle basking on a rusting chain in the middle of Chicago River in Illinois, US. He wrote: "Chicago River Snapper aka Chonkosaurus.

A couple of locals out enjoying the warm weather and sunshine caught sight of another majestic beast doing the same, a giant snapping turtle. Nicknamed "Chonkasaurus," he was lounging on some ...

A massive snapping turtle who has been nicknamed “Chonkasaurus,” shortened to Chonk by Chicagoans, was captured on video by a Chicago River kayaker who carried on a running commentary of ...