Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An approximately 90-year-old snapping turtle named Cedar, that suffered an extreme shell injury from a boat propeller, is stroked ...

Turtles that crushed hard-shelled prey like clams and snails were reported to be more than five times more likely to survive ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on ...

Turtles with shell-cracking jaws were far more likely to survive extinction due to their ability to be sustained on a restricted diet.

With his age estimated at about 90, Cedar has weathered many of life's battles. But the craggy snapping turtle bears scars of what is surely his greatest test: large, wide gashes from a boat propellor ...