NEW YORK (AP) – A man who was mailed 42 rare turtles concealed in packages marked “snacks” pleaded guilty on Monday to charges he was trafficking an endangered species. Hsien Lin Hsu admitted in ...

A common box turtle slow-steps onto a two-lane byway, carrying the weight of its ornate shell and a bounty on its head. In recent decades, the box turtle has become one of North America's most heavily ...

Stanlee Fazi admitted that he had bound the turtles in socks and shipped them from his Virginia home, making about $12,700 in the scheme, the Justice Department said. By Eduardo Medina A man in ...

The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center was a part of an exceptionally uncommon box turtle hatch that has gone viral. The ...

More than 1,500 live exotic turtles have been found wrapped in duct tape and packed into suitcases at an airport in the Philippines. The animals, which had a total worth of 4.5 million Philippine ...

Customs officials in India seized 22 live exotic animals from a man arriving on a flight from Thailand. The seized animals included an endangered siamang gibbon, two sunda flying lemurs, two green ...