Last Female's Death Spells Doom for Huge Turtles
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...
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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...
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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.