When Turtle was in 9th grade he started a youtube channel focused around his adventures in traveling and animal studies. At the time, he didn't get to do as much traveling as he'd have liked, so a lot of his 'trips' were just around the town he lives in. He and his best friend River Bates would explore the local forests and make odd videos about the animals and insects they found. Sometimes they'd give the creatures voices and act out whole scenes with them. There were even 'reoccurring' characters, Tod the Toad and Benny the beetle. Not the most creative names, but they were easy to remember and their audience was mainly kids.

Their channel was surprisingly popular, and over time it became a pretty big thing in the animal, adventure, and kids channel categories. Enough so that it gained the attention of the Science channel and Turtle was offered a job. He was given his own official web show of sorts for the company's youtube channel and it was an instant hit. Not only did it bring in the fans from his personal channel, but also viewers from the Science channel itself. It expanded to more audiences and got a bigger budget. Before he knew it, Turtle was being sent all over the world to film and teach about animals of all shapes and sizes.

Unfortuntley, River's parents sent her to New York City to go to a private school, so she couldn't join Turtle's adventures. This, of course, made Turtle very wary about taking on the job. River was his partner in crime, so doing it without her wasn't as appealing. SO the people in charge of putting the series together found a new co-host for him. Her name is Billie Collins.

Turtle wasn't too thrilled about replacing River, he even tried to get her to come back and just... not tell her parents. But she convinced him to give it a shot anyway. Good thing too, because Billie and Turtle clicked almost instantly and it made the show even better. They traveled the world and got into all sorts of trouble in the name of science and entertainment. They had a blast.

Turtle lives on his father's farm in West Virginia, but he spends a lot of his time traveling for his job and visits his best friend River in NYC a lot as well. He loves seeing new places and meeting new people. He has the kind of personality that just leads to all sorts of new friends wherever he goes.