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Chinese softshell turtle caught in Apayao

TUGUEGARAO CITY — A baby Chinese softshell turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) was reportedly caught Saturday evening, March 21, in ...

Turtle Facts That Sound Fake but Are Completely True

Most of us grew up with the rabbit and the turtle story, where the turtle wins by simply taking its time. That idea tends to ...
Los Angeles Times

He helped smuggle ‘status symbol’ turtles to China. He got nearly three years in prison

The packages in a California mail facility were labeled as almonds and chocolate cookies. But inside were dozens of turtles wrapped in socks to keep them from moving and alerting authorities. They ...
The Boston Globe

Chinese woman facing charge of trying to smuggle turtles across Vermont lake to Canada

A woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to Border Patrol agents. Wan ...
Reuters

Five endangered Chinese turtles born in U.S. zoo

(Reuters) - The birth of five Chinese big-headed turtles in a New York City zoo marks the first time the endangered creatures have been born in the United States, zoo officials said. The two-inch-long ...
AOL

Chinese national in NYC tries to smuggle $1.4M worth of protected turtles to Hong Kong — by labeling them ‘toys’

A Chinese national living in Brooklyn tried to smuggle $1.4 million worth of protected turtles wrapped in masking tape out of the United States — by passing them off as “plastic animal toys,” ...