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FILE - In this July 12, 2014 file photo, The Museum of Science and History (MOSH) celebrates the birthday of Tonca, an alligator snapping turtle in Jacksonville, Fla. Investigators in Beaumont, Texas said Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, that three men have pleaded guilty in a scheme to sell dozens of rare alligator snapping turtles caught during Texas fishing trips and hauled to Louisiana. Prosecutors announced Travis Joseph Leger and Rickey Paul Simon, both of Sulphur, Louisiana, and Jason Gene Leckelt of Wilburton, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to illegally traffic alligator snapping turtles. (Bruce Lipsky/The Florida Times-Union via AP File)
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