{"id":3619,"date":"2022-06-06T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2022-06-06T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T12:13:52","slug":"image-of-a-glass-pendant-being-shared-as-real-sea-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/image-of-a-glass-pendant-being-shared-as-real-sea-tortoise\/","title":{"rendered":"This is NOT a real tortoise species but a turtle shaped glass pendent? (PHOTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It\u2019s quite common to come across breathtaking, life-like artworks and designs resembling nature as well as animals. However, some of these artworks get misinterpreted on social media as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is our investigation about such a miscaptioned image of a tortoise shaped glass pendant, claiming to be a living tortoise species!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Viral image claimed that the image of a seemingly beautiful crystal sea tortoise is actually a living tortoise in the Atlantic Ocean and was caught near Panama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image caption read as \u201cThis is not a glass or crystal one but a real tortoise living in the Atlantic Ocean n caught near Panama. It was later released back to the ocean.<\/em> <\/em>How great is God’s creation!!!<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Facebook<\/a> | Archived<\/a>  Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was viral in the Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Due to the virality of these posts, we decided to do a fact check on this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact check<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

First, we searched the mainstream media to check whether a story related to such an amazing tortoise species discovery had been made in the Atlantic Ocean near Panama. However, we were not able to find any such news reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then we did a Google Reverse Image Search and were able to find the details behind this viral sea tortoise image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not a real tortoise, but a glass pendant created by an artist named \u201cPaul Katherman<\/em><\/a>\u201d shaped as a designer turtle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Artist Paul Katherman is known for creating similar artworks using the glass as a material. He has a dedicated social media channels to publish similar glass-based designs Facebook<\/a> | Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The viral image along with many other glass turtle pendants were seen in the below video by Katherman Glass<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n