Population of world’s rarest giant turtle rises to 4 with new discovery

Mongabay
Apr 13, 2018, 8:59 am515 ptsHot
When Cu Rua, an old Yangtze giant softshell turtle, died in Vietnam in 2016, he left behind only three of his kind: an elderly pair in a Chinese zoo, and a wild individual in a Vietnamese lake called Dong Mo. This meant that the Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), one of the world’s largest…

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