I did not know exactly how unusual or rare it was, but being a huge turtle nerd, I had never seen or heard of ducklings being grabbed by red-eared sliders like that. Brad Glorioso A female red ...

An officer conducting a pat-down on the man man figured out he was hiding somethin in the groin area of his pants.

Wrapped up in a small blue towel was a turtle of about 5 inches in length, which was subsequently identified as a red-ear slider turtle. Native from the Midwest to northern Mexico, the red-ear ...

"As best as we can tell, the turtle was not harmed by the man’s actions," a TSA official said after an East Stroudsburg man hid the animal in his pants.

When asked if there was something hidden in his pants, the man, a resident of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, reached in and pulled out a live turtle wrapped in a small blue towel. He told officials ...

TSA photo TSA officials said the turtle was around 5 inches long, and the man told staff the reptile was a red-ear slider turtle. According to the release, the man was questioned by Port Authority ...

He said it was a red-ear slider turtle, a species that is popular as a pet. The man — whose name was not released — was escorted from the checkpoint area by Port Authority police and ended up ...

The agency said the man identified the turtle as a red-eared slider, which WildlifeNYC describes as an invasive turtle species and one of the most common turtles found in New York City.

Animal carcasses discovered in two separate locations on the same day, with fatal injuries sustained from falling to their ...

The ban applies to red swamp crayfish and the slider turtle under an order approved by the Cabinet of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Jan. 20. It reflects growing concern about damage to ecosys ...

Pet owners who have a red swamp crayfish or red-eared slider turtle can breathe a sigh of relief, as they can continue keeping them under a proposed change to the law on invasive species.

A red-eared slider turtle swims peacefully among the water lilies in the Aktun Ha cenote in Mexico. The limestone rock of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula is dotted by thousands of cenotes, freshwater pools ...