Turtle

proof of life

The odds of being slapped by a random turtle in the middle of the ocean are low, but never zero.

Is Mitch The Turtle McConnell still alive?

Sen. Mitch McConnell was reportedly found unconscious at his Washington, D.C., home on June 14 before being taken to a hospital, according to newly released emergency dispatch audio. The longtime Kentucky Republican was treated by emergency responders, but details about what led to the medical episode have not been released. McConnell has been absent from the Senate since the incident, and his office has not said when he is expected to return or provided an update on his condition.

The snapping turtle is an instant kiIIer thanks to its powerful beaked jaws and lightning-fast neck projection.

You need to see this turtle getting brushed with a toothbrush. It will make your day! 😊

The box turtle crossing your yard this morning may have been crossing that same ground before you were born. Eastern box turtles can live over a century. Individuals have been documented at 120 years. And unlike most animals, they don't use that time to go anywhere. A box turtle may spend its entire life within 250 yards of the nest it hatched from. It knows every log, every seep, every patch of shade in that radius the way you know your own kitchen. This is why relocating one is such a serious problem. Move a box turtle a mile down the road and it will spend the rest of its life trying to walk home, crossing roads it doesn't know, exposed in territory it's never mapped. The shell protects it from predators. Nothing protects it from not knowing where it is. The turtle in your yard isn't passing through. It lives there, in the same specific place it has always lived, doing the slow, methodical work of being a box turtle: eating mushrooms and berries and earthworms, dispersing seeds, getting through another season. If it's large and worn-looking, with a shell that's gone dark and scratched with years, it may have been working that same patch of ground since before your neighborhood had a name. Leave it where it is, chances are, it was there first.