The gargantuan animal has enthralled thousands online after a kayaker on the Chicago River recorded it sitting on a rusted chain. By Eduardo Medina Even from afar, the snapping turtle perched on ...

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Many cultures tell fascinating tales about turtles. Several North American Native tribes speak of a great turtle floating in a primal sea, before there was any land. Here lived all the other animals ...