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The scrotum frog, big-headed turtle and mountain chicken frog as just some of the animals on display at London Zoo's new experience.

The species was wiped due to the damming of rivers, destruction of wetlands, overfishing, pollution and hunting.

Sometimes, our current mass extinction crisis can be represented by the loss of a single individual. 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 (Rafetus swinhoei). “We are devastated,” […]

The Yangtze giant softshell turtle that was found dead on Vietnam shores turns out to be the last female of the species. Read more here.

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The known population of the Yangtze giant softshell turtle is now just two males. Experts said that if the female had survived, she could have “laid a hundred eggs or more a year.”

A member of a non-profit turtle protection group found the animal floating in a Hanoi lake last Sunday, the local economic department head Phung Huy Vinh told VN Express.

Before this, another female Yangtze turtle - the penultimate surviving female - died in 2019 after she was put under general anaesthetic.

The reptiles have been disappearing due to decades of illegal turtle hunting and the rising levels of pollution