Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida river. The fossils they left behind, discovered by paleontologists at the ...

A Louisiana man has been federally indicted after prosecutors alleged he poached more than 1,800 protected turtles from Florida and trafficked them overseas in a scheme authorities say generated over ...

A federal magistrate judge in Phoenix ordered a Louisiana man held in custody Wednesday following his arrest on charges he poached and sold more than 1,700 turtles from Florida habitats and helped ...

Prosecutors claim the turtles were falsely labeled as captive-bred to obtain overseas export permits for the exotic pet trade U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Instagram A Louisiana man is accused of ...