Joey Santore was kayaking down the Chicago River last Friday, performing a plant survey near Goose Island. What he once thought was a sandbag that somebody had thrown off the bridge onto a rotting pylon turned out to be something downright monstrous.
. What he once thought was a sandbag that somebody had thrown off the bridge onto a rotting pylon turned out to be something downright monstrous."That's a Chicago River snapper. Are you kidding me?" said Santore in the video showing the reptile basking in the sun on a pile of rusty chains. "Look at that beast."
Santore said he has never seen a snapping turtle that large and believes it was probably a pregnant female weighing 60 pounds, if not a little bit more. He joked in his video, inviting the turtle out to eat. Santore told FOX Weather that he grew up in Chicago and said the once-channelized industrial canal has historically been a polluted body of water.
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