Turbo enjoying time swimming around in the turtle pond and getting good meals and exercise.(Courtesy Humane Rescue Alliance) Turbo is a pretty female red-eared slider turtle. Turbo recently arrived at ...

A red swamp crayfish is seen in southern Ibaraki Prefecture in this 2014 file photo. (Mainichi/Takuma Nakamura) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about Japan's new ...

The local District council says the red-eared slider turtles were taken from the Cornwall Park aviary in the early hours of last Saturday. A large hole measuring around a metre was cut in the aviary's ...

Invasive red-ear slider turtles now vastly outnumber endemic Japanese turtles and are causing significant stress to the ecosystem, the Environment Ministry said Friday. A study has put the number of ...