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.”
The Yangtze giant softshell turtle , the world's largest freshwater turtle and one of the most endangered species on Earth, is now essentially doomed to extinction after the last known remaining female washed up dead in Vietnam.
This particular female Yangtze giant softshell turtle was just discovered in October 2020. At the time, no other female Yangtze giant softshell turtles were known to exist; the last known female of the species had died after a failed attempt at artificial insemination at Suzhou Zoo in China in April 2019.
"It is the same individual that we've been monitoring in recent years," Tim McCormack, director of the Asian Turtle Program for Indo-Myanmar Conservation, told TIME magazine ."It's a real blow."There are now just two known R. swinhoei males left in existence: one in Suzhou Zoo and another that still resides in Dong Mo Lake.
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