June 22, 2025

135 Year Old Tortoise is a father for the first time!

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Highlights include Goliath, a 135-year-old Galapagos tortoise, becoming a father for the first time; unique vegetable likenesses of celebrities at the Lambeth Country Show; the first video of a live Azis Antarctica squid filmed at 6,000 feet; the discovery and $7 million auction of a 1666 painting found in a barn attic; and a humorous misadventure involving hikers in the Adirondacks who mistakenly reported their friend dead while under the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. Congratulations to Goliath. Goliath became a father,

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is one hundred and thirty four years old and a tortoise.

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Goliath is a Galopagos tortoise that weighs five hundred and

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seventeen pounds. He's four point two feet long, and he

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hadn't fathered any offspring. After one hundred and twenty eight

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days of incubation, one egg that was laid January twenty

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seventh successfully hatched on June fourth. According to the Zoo Miami,

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Goliath officially hatched in Galapagos on June fifteenth, eighteen ninety.

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He arrived at the Bronx Zoo in July of nineteen

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twenty nine and came to Miami in nineteen eighty one.

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The mother is Sweet Peace. She arrived at the zoo

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in nineteen sixty, so she's between eighty five and one

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hundred years old. An application has been made to the

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Guinness Book of World Records to officially recognize Goliath as

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oldest first time father in history. There's also some consideration

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for oldest first time parents in history. Now check your calendar.

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Although he became a dad at one hundred and thirty four.

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Now the June fifteenth is passed. Goliath is one hundred

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and thirty five. Congratulations to the family. At the Lambeth

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Country Show, vegetable likenesses of famous people have been put

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on display, including a vegetable likeness of Donald Trump and

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Dolly Parton. Callie Parton was made out of cauliflower. I

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assume Donald Trump was made out of butternut squash. Country

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Fair regular Maddie said it's unique and so witty and

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we love the political ones. Researchers have recorded a video

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of a three foot long deep sea squid species that

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had never been filmed nor seen alive. It is the

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Gonazis antarcticus, a squid only found in the frigid waters

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around Antarctica. Was discovered on Christmas Day. They knew the

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squid existed because it would turn up in fishing nets,

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but they hadn't seen a live one. It was spotted

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at a day of six thousand feet. While a lot

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of pricey artwork keeps showing up in like closets and stuff,

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a painting just sold for seven million dollars at Sotheby's,

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more than twenty five years after being found in an

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attic in a born in Connecticut. It's called View of

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a Linda Brazil with ruins of the Jesuit Church, who

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was painted by Franz Post in sixteen sixty six. It

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had been owned by a bunch of Parisians, including Napoleon's uncle.

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Then it wound up in the US got caked with grime.

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George Watchers, the chairman of Southeby's North and South America,

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he said, of all the paintings we put up at Southeby's,

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probably forty percent or dirty. And good news, your friend's

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not dead. Two hikers in the Adirondacks called nine to

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one one. They reported that their friend had died, but

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it turned out they were just high. They'd taken hallucinogenic

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mushrooms and they were mistaken. A forest ranger responded to

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a call about a hiker who had reportedly died on

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Cascade Mountain. The hikers who called nine one one also

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said they were lost. Officials determined the hikers were quote

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in an altered mental state. The ranger escuoredd the two

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hikers down to an ambulance, which took them in the

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hospital and they found the third guy, and they brought

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the third guy to the group's campsite and they all

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met up later. Everybody's okay. Those are your five good

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