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Wins and losses barely register when Johns Hopkins women’s lacrosse coach Tim McCormack remembers his time at UMass.He played goalie for the Minutemen from 2008-2012, captaining the team his final two years. McCormack ranks eighth all-time at UMass...

AMHERST – Losing the Atlantic 10 championship game against Richmond reminded the UMass women’s lacrosse team of lessons it didn’t follow as rigidly in the preceding 15-game winning streak. A third quarter lull the Minutewomen usually worked through...

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.

McMahon, McCormack, Tumolo and Elliott Whidden bring success to program.

The Yangtze giant softshell turtle was hit with a brutal blow, reports LiveScience , when the last known female of the largest known freshwater species, a huge creature over...

When the discussion turns to de-extincting extinct animals, one option which gets a lot of attention is cloning – creating

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.