Yangtze Giant Soft Shell Turtle Goes Extinct
- The recent death of the last known surviving female Yangtze giant soft shell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) means that the species is now walking into the sunset.
Key Facts
- With the passing of the female, only three known individuals of this species remain in the world. One is the 100-year-old male in Suzhou. There is another male in Vietnam’s Dong Mo Lake, and a turtle in Xuan Khanh Lake on the outskirts of Hanoi, whose gender is unknown.
- The Yangtze giant soft shell turtle is known to have inhabited the Yangtze river in China and the Red river that flows from southern ....
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