Awesome Turtles

Pokémon will recognize this character as the Blastoise – a big turtle with powerful water cannons under its shell. 3D Sanago crafted this statue of the turtle and rigged it to shoot steam from its cannons instead of water. He used a stone to provide a curved template for drawing the body with a 3D printing pen. Turn subtitles on.

The Animal ASMR channel has cornered the market on recording close-ups of turtles and guinea pigs snacking on food. Among their many similar video clips is this adorable and relaxing recording of a tortoise chomping down on a strawberry, a blueberry, pumpkin, and broccoli. Crunch crunch crunch.

The Universal Monsters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles combine their mutant powers for an epic mashup. The first figure in NECA’s line-up melds Raphael with Frankenstein’s Monster. The 7″ figure gives Raph a stitched-on head, neck bolts, an ill-fitting suit, and comes with three pairs of hands and two lightning bolt sai.

As we’ve witnessed before, pastry chef Amaury Guichon is a true master of chocolate. Watch as he transforms a puddle of chocolate into an intricate sculpture of a mama turtle and her baby, swimming atop a brilliant blue anemone. It took him four days to create this incredible, edible masterpiece.

The nature film experts at John Downer Productions show off another one of their animatronic camera spies. As an eagle drone flies overhead, a robot turtle on the ground infiltrates a bale of 20,000 olive ridley sea turtles coming ashore on a Costa Rican beach to lay their eggs. From “The Tropics” episode of Spy in the Wild 2.

We’ve been on horseback, but we never thought we’d get to go on a turtleback ride. Thanks to YouTuber The Fish Whisperer, we can now see what it’s like to be a turtle, as this little fella heads off into the muddy water, and pops his head up for the occasional fishy snack.

Glass artist Raven Skyriver demonstrates the team effort required to create a large sculpture of a sea turtle. His studio creates all kinds of incredible glass animals, including lizards, sharks, whales, seahorses, fish, octopi, and more. Video by Derek Klein Films.

This dog is too lazy to walk where he needs to go, so he gets out his smartphone, opens up Uber, and requests a ride. At least that how we like to think this video went down. And like some Uber drivers we’ve had, the tortoise seems to have no idea where he’s going.

The WWF of Australia strapped a GoPro onto the back of a green turtle as it was tagged and released back into the wild. Follow along with the big guy on a first-turtle view of the Great Barrier Reef without getting your hair wet.

National Geographic caught up with a giant Amazon river turtle in South America, and strapped a camera to its back. Let’s go for a ride with this majestic, endangered beast as it interacts with others of its species.

While it’s more likely that it was just the sound of this man’s voice that made all of these turtles go scurrying into the water, it’s definitely more amusing to think that they actually understood what he was saying.

Even a commercial diver like YouTuber Johnny641 would probably be pretty relieved when he realized the creature of the deep that had snuck up on him was just a friendly, attention-starved turtle.

Unless you can call permanent lifetime humiliation animal cruelty, no harm came to Greg Christenson’s tortoise Frankie, as he sauntered around a Petsmart store dressed up as a UFO.

Its Friday, so why are we being so serious? How about something a little lighter, like this video of a kitten riding on the back of a turtle, set to the tune of “Baby Elephant Walk.” Awww. (Thanks, Kevin!)

What happens when you strap a waterproof digital camcorder to the back of a turtle? 2 minutes, 4 seconds of pure awesome, that’s what. And we thought turtles lived slow, boring lives.