#turtle day

I'm hosting this as an event in my server but I'd love it if the whole community would participate! Share your love of turtles everywhere in honor of World Turtle Day! (May 23rd)

The Magma will be open all weekend so show the Turtles some love!!!

UPDATE: So sorry everyone! There was a mixup with the link!!

World Turtle Day Celebration! | Magma – Multiplayer art platform for Art Jams and creative workflows

After four long years, a Leatherback sea turtle — Earth’s largest living turtle — has returned to Sanibel Island, Florida, to nest once again. Weighing nearly a ton and stretching up to seven feet long, this gentle giant rose from the dark surf under moonlight, driven by the same ancient pull that guides her kind back to the beach where they were born — a miracle of nature called natal homing.

The Leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) is a creature of extremes — a deep diver that can withstand frigid polar waters, yet return to tropical sands to create life. Unlike any other turtle, its leathery shell flexes with pressure, allowing it to roam thousands of miles across the open ocean, feeding on jellyfish and crossing continents between nesting cycles.

For Sanibel Island’s conservation teams, this rare visit is more than a spectacle — it’s a triumph. Leatherbacks are endangered, facing relentless threats from plastic pollution, fishing gear entanglement, and climate change. Each nesting female represents a fragile thread in a story 100 million years old — a lineage that has survived the extinction of dinosaurs, shifting continents, and rising seas.

When she finished laying her eggs, she turned back toward the surf, vanishing into the dark water with the same quiet grace that brought her ashore. Beneath the sand, a new generation now waits — tiny hearts beating in rhythm with the tides.

Didn't have a lot of time to draw, but I wanted to post something today so here's some messily drawn Rottmnt turtles :D

I tried drawing them referencing the size chart from the Art Book, but I still don't get how do their legs look lol

Here is a little tribute to all things turtley, featuring a certain turtle-loving makanae :3

Anyway excuse me as I nerd out for abit:

The turtles (order Testudines) are a group of reptiles instantly recognisable thanks to their bowed legs, slow movements and, most striking of all, their shells. This unique structure, formed from the ribs and a few other bones, offers amazing protection against predators, even allowing the vulnerable head and neck to be retracted inside in the vast majority of species. Turtles proper evolved in the late Jurassic, and have since become extremely successful, found on every continent except Antarctica and coming in a wide variety of forms, including terrestrial herbivores, semi-aquatic omnivores, freshwater ambush-hunters and marine wanderers. However, the greater group that the turtles belong to, the Pantestudines, had their start in the Triassic (possibly even earlier, as a Permian reptile called Eunotosaurus is sometimes considered to be a turtle relative, but whether it actually is is unclear). Most of these animals would have looked very similar to modern turtles, differing only in a few minor anotomical traits, but the earliest forms would have more resembled lizards. Even so, these proto turtles already had the beginnings of a shell, in the form of their expanded ribs.

happy turtle day! 🐢🐢🐢 05th september

Cr: Gavrilovich_95 (photos) 山野渡_ (text) 🥰🥰🥰

Happy turtle day everyone!

I found out literally an hour ago and immediately drew my two favourite iterations having fun on their day :)

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