Confiscated live animals are temporarily held in what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service calls their “live room” at an office building near Los Angeles International Airport, while authorities try to ...

The operation was upended after investigators found more than 200 parcels destined for Hong Kong containing 850 turtles worth ...

A federal wildlife officer took photos of turtles that a Kentucky man was allegedly selling illegally. This photo was included in the court file. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Federal authorities ...

A federal judge sentenced a Livingston Parish couple to a year of probation each for selling vulnerable Louisiana turtles to an undercover agent who was investigating them as part of a multi-agency ...

Over the years Pennsylvania has appointed an assemblage of flora and fauna to be official representatives of the commonwealth. To that end, a congregation of various critters have risen to that lofty ...

TORRANCE, Calif. — In the back of an office building, in a small room that smells like rotting strawberries, a criminal investigator watches his evidence crawl around on wood chips in five open ...

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