125-Pound Alligator Snapping Turtle

FWRI researchers managed to capture some amazing underwater footage of North America’s largest freshwater turtle after sampling and releasing a 125-pound male alligator snapping turtle in the Suwannee River last week! On June 9, Travis Thomas and Eric Suarez set 12 traps on the Suwannee. The team had previously marked quite a few juvenile snappers at a particular location on the river, and they were hoping to recapture some of them and collect growth data. Researchers checked the traps the next day and foun