Safari guide Reggi Barreto captured footage of a brave turtle confronting several lions drinking at a watering hole inside South Africa's Greater Kruger National Park Has the lion king met his match?

Things apparently got cozy, and they confided that they had hunted a mountain lion. In fact ... the skull of a green sea turtle, and it was with them aboard that very plane.

A Butte County couple on a California flight told plain-clothed wildlife officers they were carrying an illegal sea turtle skull in their luggage. California Department of Fish and Wildlife officers ...

Despite the lion’s size, the turtle showed no fear, making eye contact with the lion and appearing to sniff its blood-stained muzzle. The turtle then approached a lioness drinking nearby.

The CDFW announced Tuesday it settled cases against Byron Lee Fitzpatrick, 24, and Shannon Lee Price, 28, after investigators seized the sea turtle skull, parts of a mountain lion and barn owl ...