Stories
Turtle wonders, turtle culture, turtle records — essays from the Turtle Club.
Features
Only seven species in the world
The longest night on the beach
Kijō, kikkō masonry, Genbu
Beaches, ponds, honu, Galápagos
A cultural history of suppon
The ones who carry the world
With anatomy diagrams
Divine messengers and shrine ponds
200 million years, senior to dinosaurs
The first coins were turtles
Life begins at coin size
A year in turtles
Five things you can do today
Play
Ten questions — aim for Turtle Sage
Five questions to your inner turtle
Faster than you think — on video
Today's luck, with a lucky turtle
Time at one-tenth speed
Color codes sampled from shells
Line up against the giants
Essays
The messenger of Mt. Horai, the guardian deity Genbu, and the moss-tailed minogame — how turtles came to symbolize long life in Japanese art.
In Japanese, every shelled reptile is simply "kame." English is far more complicated. A field guide to turtle words around the world.
Born around 1832, photographed in the 19th century, still grazing on a South Atlantic island — meet the world's oldest living land animal.
Turtles climb, push, dig, and vanish. Common escape tricks, how to search when one goes missing, and what to do when you find a wandering turtle.
As a child, I lived with three turtles — a midorigame, a zenigame, and a zōrigame, as we called them then. A true story from the Turtle Club's advisor.
Dictionaries
18 entries, from proverbs to world words
Pet-shop names and how to read Latin
Photo credits are listed on each page.