I first met Kate in 2011, when we both joined Pizza Island, a shared studio space in Brooklyn, and of course I adored her immediately. Kate’s the real deal (as if you could have any doubt). Whenever I move, her books are the ones I put in the “I need these right away” box: they’re funny, educational, and comforting to…
You may think this turtle was casually swimming by, doing what turtles do, when it unknowingly got caught in the middle of this group picture and photobombed it much to our collective delight. Let’s be real here, that turtle knew what it was doing. Look at that coy side-eye. It basically heard a bunch of humans was on…
A beach wedding in St. Croix was derailed when an unexpected guest dragged herself out of the depths of the sea and made Brianna's special day ALL ABOUT HER. It was an enormous, majestic leatherback sea turtle—the largest species of turtle in the world—and girl was just looking for quiet place to lay her eggs without…
Someone get this turtle a copy of The Rules*, he's gotta learn sometime!
Meet two-headed turtle Thelma and Louise. (Let's hope things end a little better for the turtles than the duo they're named after.)
Well, here's a magical way to wrap up the day. Every year hundreds of baby loggerhead turtles hatch on the beaches of the the isle of Bonair in the Caribbean, and this year they needed some help.
Maybe "joy" is overstating it, since having your front limbs mauled by sharks is a tough thing to get over. But thanks to the perseverance of a group of researchers at the University of Tokyo, loggerhead sea turtle Yu Chan can swim again after a shark attack. 27 prosthesis models later (see? Perseverance), she's…
I've been saying this for years, and nobody ever listens to me: people, en masse, are shit. Like, actual shit. Believe me, I'd love to be wrong about this, but here's a new experiment that verifies my theory. It takes a turtle seven or eight years to reproduce, and a female turtle who lives 50 years may lay over 100…
In Aesop's famous fable, the tortoise defeats the hare in the race because he proceeds slowly and steadily. But now, information about turtles is giving rise to a new theory: the tortoise won because he's got a huge wang and didn't need to prove anything to anyone.
A British Columbia elementary school teacher was scolded after she included a quote from Dr. Seuss's Yertle the Turtle in materials she brought to a meeting with school management. The story, school officials warned, was "too political" and would not be acceptable in the classroom, in the interests of "shielding the…
In this week's compilation of pop culture crap: Carla Hall almost vomits on The Chew; a dress made from ladies underwear; "Brogurt"; and Regis Philbin tries out a new job alongside Beavis and Butthead.
Yesterday a couple got married while scuba diving in a tank a the London Acquarium, but one turtle was so against their union that he started gnawing on the bride's dress. The groom quickly sent him packing, or rather, floating, and the ceremony concluded with no interruptions.
The BP oil spill hasn't stopped biologists releasing these adorable baby sea turtles into the wild — they hope the oil will be gone by the time the babies get where they're going.
The internet is teeming with videos of animals of different species playing and cuddling, but this cat isn't having it. This scene should be familiar if you've ever tried to get a cat's attention.
A diver lost his waterproof camera in Aruba and seven months later it washed ashore in Florida with video filmed by a sea turtle. Now 1.8 million people have viewed the turtle's home movie on YouTube. Click to watch.
We've learned from this clip that male turtles get really into it when they fuck, replete with facial expressions and sex moans that turn their throats into something resembling a vagina and a fart. (Click image to view video.)
