A casual conversation on a 2023 flight between a Northern California couple and state Fish and Wildlife officers exposed several wildlife crimes, including the illegal smuggling of an endangered ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A California family is facing consequences after being found guilty of possessing multiple illegal animal items. California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers say they ...

SACRAMENTO, California (KOVR) — A California couple pleaded guilty after exposing a series of wildlife crimes, including illegally smuggling the skull of an endangered sea turtle, to state Fish ...

Once back to their patrol districts, the wildlife officers authored search warrants for the couple’s residence in Chico, ...

Their crimes were exposed after two people revealed to plain-clothes wildlife officers that they were smuggling an endangered sea turtle's skull on a flight. In August 2023, a person was arrested ...

New research shows that the turtle has what British biologist John Davenport calls a “skylight” on the top of its skull, an unusually ... There’s a sea snake with photoreceptors in its ...

But the museum has something even more valuable than the island’s idyllic allure: it houses one of the world’s largest collections of sea turtle skulls, shells and skeletal remains.

Not only that, the couple had a trophy of their own, the skull of a green sea turtle, and it was with them aboard that very plane. The passengers in the row ahead were sure to have listened with avid ...

The officers conversed with the couple, who unsuspectingly revealed that they were transporting the skull of a sea turtle from the East Coast in their luggage, according to California wildlife ...