The Yangtze giant softshell turtle is now on the brink of extinction. On Sunday, a dead reptile of its kind washed up on the shores of Dong Mo Lake in Vietnam, measuring 156 cm. long and weighing ...

the honorific given to the last Giant Yangtze Softshell Turtle in Hoàn Kiếm Lake. Slowly, tentatively, the huge beast emerged, viciously shredding a dead cat in its jaws before sinking back ...

The Endangered Species Fund, or ESF, a nongovernmental organization, said the species once inhabited areas including the ...

A female Yangtze giant softshell turtle is seen in the mud at Suzhou ... Images She was first found swimming in Vietnam’s Dong Mo Lake in 2020, giving researchers hope that the most endangered ...

On April 21, locals spotted a 93-kilogram (205-pound) body in the waters of Dong Mo Lake in northern Vietnam: it was the carcass of the last known female of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle ...

The giant turtle is something you might have spotted in the Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 1 trailer, swimming around a lake and scaring Peely off their boat. Although it’s not part of a marked ...

The largest freshwater turtle ever found is a member of the species Stupendemys geographicus, a giant that was twice ... given its large wetland and lake system known as the Pebas system.

The giant turtle, just ahead of release ... the accomplished anglers were fishing for a new world-record alligator gar at the upper end of Sam Rayburn Lake in East Texas. Weston and Kirkland ...

The turtle, named Fluffy, was spotted in a small lake on the edge of a village and was taken by local vets who planned to transport him to a specialist reptile centre.