CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Alligator snapping turtles are equipped with one of nature's original fishing lures. Softshell turtles have lost most of the hard, fingernail-like material in their shells. Box ...

Biologists have been working for three decades on a recovery project for the Illinois-endangered Blanding’s turtle, whose numbers were declining due to an increase in predators and habitat destruction ...