Pet owners who have a red swamp crayfish or red-eared slider turtle can breathe a sigh of relief, as they can continue keeping them under a proposed change to the law on invasive species. However, ...

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 ...

The red-eared slider and the painted turtle are both fascinating turtles that are popular pets around the world, with the painted turtle being second in popularity only to the red-eared slider. If you ...

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 ...

Naohisa Okuda, head of the Nature Conservation Bureau at the Ministry of the Environment, explains about Japan's new regulations on alien species, with his face painted like a red-eared slider turtle, ...