Mr. Pickles Is the Leonardo DiCaprio of Tortoises

Spring has sprung, and nonagenarians of the male sex are having a frisky week. Rupert Murdoch, 92, announced to a woman 26 years his junior—it’ll be his fifth marriage. But the media titan was out-playboyed by a reptile of the nonmetaphorical variety, a Houston tortoise named Mr. Pickles who became a father for the first time at 90 years old—37 years older than the three hatchlings’ mother, Mrs. Pickles. Mr. Pickles’ virility—in... + full article