Bombs, vid of exploding turtle found in NY search

Police say a search of a New York home has turned up explosives and a video of a group of people blowing up a turtle.

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Lucky the injured turtle gets coasters for feet

His name is Lucky, and it held true after the box turtle got his front legs chewed off by a raccoon: Thanks to the ingenuity of a veterinary surgeon, Lucky now skids along on plastic sliders where his legs used to be.

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Turtle thought to be extinct spotted in Myanmar

The rare Arakan forest turtle, once though to be extinct, has been rediscovered in a remote forest in Myanmar, boosting chances of saving the reptile after hunting almost destroyed its population, researchers said Monday.

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Bahamas set to ban catch and sale of sea turtles

Soups, stews and pies flavored with chunks of sea turtle meat will soon be illegal across the 700 islands of the Bahamas, environmental activists and scientists said Sunday.

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Turtles crawl on runway, delay flights at JFK

A runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport was shut down briefly Wednesday morning after at least 78 turtles emerged from a nearby bay and crawled onto the tarmac.

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Turtle named for Obama freed on Independence Day

A sea turtle named after President Barack Obama that was rescued just before Inauguration Day has been set free on Independence Day.

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Rare prehistoric pregnant turtle found in Utah

Paleontologists say a 75-million-year-old turtle fossil uncovered in southern Utah has a clutch of eggs inside, making it the first prehistoric pregnant turtle found in the United States.

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Uni-flipper turtle gets it straight with swimsuit

Allison, a green sea turtle with only one flipper, has been going around and around and around for most of her life.

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Rare Vietnamese turtle in close call with soup pot

A rare Vietnamese turtle, one of just four believed left in the world, was swept away by a flood, taken hostage by an enterprising fisherman and nearly ended up in a soup pot.

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Md. officials relocate turtles from construction

Boot-clad feet kick aside tall grass. Heads tilt to peer under logs. A Labrador retriever follows her eager nose through the woods.

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Disabled turtle finds romance after getting wheels

Arava the disabled turtle is using her new set of wheels to get around in more ways than one. Officials at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo say the 10-year-old spurred tortoise has begun mating since being fitted with a custom skateboard to overcome paralysis of her hind legs.

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Sea turtle Dylan is released back into the wild

A 150-pound sea turtle raised by humans returned to freedom on Monday after nine years of captivity, swimming away after the veterinarians who cared for her helped steer her toward the ocean.

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Officials shut eatery after finding turtle in sink

Putting a snapping turtle in the kitchen sink got a York city restaurant shut down. Jim Zhao is working to bring his Panda Chinese Kitchen back up to code and hopes to be able to reopen on Thursday.

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Rare giant turtle found in Vietnam

Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam, giving scientists hope for the species they believed was extinct in the wild.

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Bob the Turtle Returns to Texas Museum

Bob is back. The folks at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History say a 2-foot-long snapping turtle called Bob was located Wednesday in a construction area.

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Fake Flipper Sought for Sea Turtle

When tourists found a 5-inch green sea turtle bloody and missing three of her flippers, the people who run a hospital for the endangered animals here gave her little chance of survival.

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Leatherback Turtle Swims Across Pacific

Scientists tracked a leatherback turtle that swam from Indonesia to Oregon and back to Hawaii in an epic 13,000-mile search for food — research they hope will boost international efforts to save the endangered species.

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Environmentalists: Protect Sea Turtles

Two environmental groups are asking the Interior Department to declare loggerhead sea turtles that inhabit the Atlantic coast officially endangered, maintaining that tens of thousands of the turtles are killed annually by commercial fishing and because of coastal development.

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Congressman Questions Mich. Turtle Fence

A congressman disputes the state's contention that it's worth $318,000 in federal money to keep turtles from becoming roadkill.

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Two-Headed Turtle Goes on Display in Pa.

A pet store has bought a two-headed turtle from a collector and plans to keep it on display, the store manager said. The 2-month-old turtle, actually conjoined red-eared slider twins, fits on a silver dollar.

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Turtles to Test Wireless Network

From the way he thrashed his head, kicked and tried to make a getaway, M16 made it clear he didn't like human contact. But the researchers wrangling with him could be helping to save his species.

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Rare Turtle Discovered in Cambodia

A rare soft-shell turtle thought to be on the brink of extinction has been discovered in Cambodia in a former stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, conservationists said Wednesday.

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Willy the Tortoise Comes Home

Willy the tortoise made a break for freedom — well, break may be too strong a word. It was more like a slow crawl. But after a month on the lam, the 40-pound tortoise with a 2-foot-wide, gold-colored shell is back in the wading pool at his owner's home.

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Turtle /tortoise like animal found in a stream is scaring local villagers. Creature is aggressive enough to attack and rip branches.

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A weekend drunk driving incident almost claimed the lives of two men who were trying to put a a turtle out of harms way.

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HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Michigan - Police say two men were seriously injured when they were hit by a car as they tried to help a turtle crossing a road.

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Timmy is thought to have been hurt in a fight with a rival tortoise at their home in Paignton Zoo, Devon. Zoo vets came up with the idea of covering the wound in the Aldabra giant tortoise to keep it clean and protected during the slow healing process.

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SALT LAKE CITY - PALEONTOLOGISTS say a 75-million-year-old turtle fossil uncovered in southern Utah has a clutch of eggs inside, making it the first prehistoric pregnant turtle found in the United States.

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Sea turtles are still nesting at Galveston island.

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SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Turtle rescuers have demonstrated the first fin suit designed to allow a green sea turtle that lost three of its flippers to finally swim a straight line. Workers at Sea Turtle Inc.

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This is an interesting find i think, although I do not think that it is very ahrd to believe.

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The last place scientists expected to find the fossil of a freshwater, tropical turtle was in the Arctic. But they did.

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--Video-- An Australian vet got the shock of his life when a cat gave birth to this two-headed kitten. The tiny kitten, which was born at the Swan Veterinary Clinic in Perth, Western Australia, eats out of just one mouth, but both mouths meow simultaneously.

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Fossils of the earliest known swimming turtles have been uncovered on an island in northwest Britain, scientists reported today. The fossils of the previously unknown species suggest turtles first took to water during the Middle Jurassic period (180 to 160 million years ago).

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Known as a 'water monster,' this Axolotl salamander is just a few years away from extinction, according to recent warnings by scientists.

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SYDNEY (AFP) -- A crocodile which was captured after menacing tourist beaches near Australia's World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef has died from eating too many plastic bags, officials said.

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Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon and Jerry Ferrara moved their filming over the Triboro Bridge to downtown Manhattan on Thursday, August 28, 2008. The cast had been filming season 5 of Entourage on location in Queens, NY. ...

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Check out this Season 5 Entourage promo done Comic Strip style. Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jeremy Piven, Jerry Ferrara and Kevin Dillon are more animated than ever in this video clip.

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