Giant Florida Alligator Snapping Turtles

Wildlife conservationists in florida stumbled across an enormous species of turtle that looks like it crawled out of a monster movie.
Giant florida alligator snapping turtles. Another weighing 107 kg 236 lb was. The alligator snapping turtle is an incredible predator. The suwannee alligator snapping turtle has been isolated for at least 5 5 million years during which time it has undergone sufficient evolutionary changes to differentiate it from other alligator snapping turtles. Deep in an east texas swamp a 300 pound creature ambushes in large alligator from underneath.
E veryone agrees that the suwannee species is distinct. Biologists with the florida fish and wildlife conservation commission captured three suwannee alligator snapping turtles last week including one that weighed 100 pounds. They are true survivors with a fearsome appearance gaping sharp jaws and a real attitude problem. Biologists in florida recently trapped a rare giant alligator snapping turtle weighing in at whopping 100 pounds.
What swamp creature could bully an 8 foot alligator. These animals are known to easily reach 100 years of age. The massive creature was a suwanee alligator snapping turtle macrochelys suwanniensis which is a new species of snapping turtle that biologists first discovered in 2014. The florida fish and wildlife commission just caught some truly massive turtles.
Suwannee alligator snapping turtles also known as macrochelys suwanniensis are considered a species of special concern and they re also a newly named species the agency helped discover in. According to a florida fish and wildlife conservation commission fwc facebook post the 45kg male suwannee alligator snapping turtle was found along with another 29kg male and a 20kg female in. Though not verified a 183 kg 403 lb alligator snapping turtle was found in kansas in 1937 but the largest verifiable one is debatable. Three massive snapping turtles were found in florida with one weighing 100 pounds.
One weighed at the shedd aquarium in chicago was a 16 year resident giant alligator snapper weighing 113 kg 249 lb sent to the tennessee aquarium as part of a breeding loan in 1999 where it subsequently died. These ancient beasts probably laughed as they watched the dinosaurs come and go from this planet.