Blossoming Flower Is Actually a Gross Turtle Esophagus
Those aren’t the pedals of a particularly exotic flower, they’re the papillae inside a Loggerhead turtle’s throat.
See the Great Barrier Reef from the perspective of a swimming turtle
I’m not saying I’d trade places with this turtle but imagine how wonderful a life this little guy has. He enjoys things…
Everything is Better in the World Now That This Tortoise Can Move Again
The 90-year-old tortoise Mrs. T has been unable to walk since rats viciously chewed off her front legs while she was…
260-million-year-old fossil reveals the evolution of turtle shells
Turtle shells are truly remarkable structures. As embryos, turtles' bones begin to fuse, as ribs, shoulder bones, and…
Tortoise Trapped In Record Player Box Found Alive After 30 Years
Once upon a time, the tortoise Manuela lived a happy life with the Almeidas, a Brazilian family who lives west of Rio…
This colossal prehistoric turtle could snap other turtles in half
For a brief period after the dinosaurs vanished, truly gigantic reptiles like the 50-foot snake Titanoboa and…
How turtles sense Earth's drifting magnetic field
Turtles are one of many species that use their sense of Earth's magnetic field to navigate great distances. But the…
Tortoise Gets Chair Wheel Prosthesis to Replace Missing Leg
Thankfully someone had the common sense to glue a wheel from a rolling office chair to our 12-year-old African…
This turtle briefly ruled the world after the dinosaurs were wiped out
This is an artist's conception of the river turtle Boremys, which is one of the first known species whose existence…
Runway Closed by Swarm of Turtles
Terrorists? Toxic gas cloud? Meteor shower? No—the NYT reports JFK's Runway 4 was closed for over an hour today because …
The Turtle Pen Is Possibly the Only Interesting Pen
Pens! Pens! PENS! Excited? No, of course not, because when was the last time a pen was remotely interesting? Here's a…
It took a few dozen people, including Special Forces soldiers, to capture this sacred giant turtle
This massive turtle, weighing 440 pounds, was pulled out of Hanoi's Ho Hoan Kiem, or Lake of the Returned Sword, by a…
Magnetic Turtle Vacuums Up Pins Better Than a Dyson
A cutesie magnetic turtle that collects pins and paperclips. You remember what those are, right? Like your Firefox…
Microsoft's Announcing Something On April 12th (Update: It's Project Pink Phones)
Microsoft's sent out invites for an event on April 12th, plastered with the phrase "It's time to share." It's double…
Microsoft Turtle and Pure Dumbphones Run on Silverlight, Powered by Nvidia Tegra Graphics
With Windows Phone 7 out, everyone has forgotten about the other Microsoft handsets, the allegedly Sidekick-derived…
Microsoft's Project Pink Phones Show Up On FCC
With MWC right around the corner, all eyes are on Microsoft for the launch of Windows Phone 7. And though we heard…
Turtle and Pure Pink Phones May Be Just Next-Gen Sidekicks
Cnet's Ina Fried says the Microsoft Pink phones leaked yesterday are "more the evolution of the Sidekick" using Windows…
The Pink Phone Pictures Microsoft Doesn't Want You To See Yet
Project Pink is Microsoft's secret new phone, their first major phone play since the iPhone. Here are the first…
Beware Giant Radioactive Turtles of the Soviet Era
It's comforting to know that during the height of Reagan's Cold War in the 1980s, the Soviet Union was making movies…
Bionic Tortoise Ready for Rematch with Hare
Three legged turtle gets an air-filled, shock-absorbed tire. Giz <3's BB.