Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Chinese man has been charged with smuggling protected turtles after the small animals bound inside socks were intercepted in ...

A California man is facing federal charges for his alleged role in a plot to illegally export hundreds of protected turtles to Asia, prosecutors said. The Department of Justice announced Friday that ...

State wildlife officials investigating the cause of waterfowl found at Mile Square Regional Park with mutilated bills say the injuries appear to be the work of snapping turtles, though some animal ...

A turtle with a missing flipper was rescued and successfully rehabilitated in California before being released back into the ocean. Porkchop, a green sea turtle, spent nearly a year recovering at the ...

A heatwave in the Pacific Ocean has triggered a legal requirement to protect loggerhead sea turtles, which are endangered species listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of ...

Seeing a turtle isn’t rare in California, especially in ponds and lakes in city parks. Unfortunately, many are abandoned pets and might be species from anywhere in the world. Only one type, ...

A California man faces federal charges after authorities said he attempted to illegally export nearly 300 trafficked turtles out of the U.S. The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday, May 15 ...

The California Turtle and Tortoise Club, Inland Empire Chapter, will hold its annual turtle and tortoise show 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 4 at the ARK Church, 1307 E. Citrus Ave., Redlands. The show, in the ...

A hunk of romaine was easy pickings for Porkchop and her three flippers. On a rainy day last week, the green sea turtle pumped her limbs and stretched her beak up to chomp a lettuce leaf floating on ...

Authorities said Donald Do of Daly City and an accomplice allegedly attempted to export the loggerhead musk turtles to Taiwan Charlotte Phillipp is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...