What Most Indiana Residents Don’t Realize About Why Snapping Turtles Suddenly Cross Roads

Every year, usually sometime between late May and early July, Indiana residents begin noticing something unusual on roads that seemed perfectly normal just days earlier.

A massive turtle slowly crosses a county road outside Fort Wayne. Another appears in the middle of a subdivision street near Indianapolis. Drivers in southern Indiana suddenly find themselves braking for a prehistoric looking reptile lumbering across the pavement as if traffic does not exist.

For many people, the timing feels strange…

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