A Florida man, who owns a reptile shop, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday for trying to illegally export thousands of wild-caught turtles to Hong Kong and Germany, court records show. John ...

Update 5/29/24: On May 24, John Kreatsoulas was sentenced to a year and a day in prison plus three years of supervised release for conspiring to illegally export thousands of turtles to Germany and ...

In a weird way, stinky turtles have led to my current life as a guy in Costa Rica working in wildlife monitoring. Up until the age of ten I lived in southern New Jersey. The area I grew up in wasn’t ...

Prosecutors said he was involved in a scheme to illegally sell wild turtles to people in other states and countries. A Florida resident will soon report to federal prison for his role in an ...

The Sonoyta mud turtle has evolved as an aquatic species in one of the driest parts of the Sonoran Desert. With webbed feet and an innate ability to swim, this turtle depends heavily on what little ...

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For hundreds of years, people believed that, come autumn, barn swallows would dive under the surface of ponds and lakes, swim to the bottom, and bury themselves in the mud for the winter. We now know ...