A dead reptile of its kind washed up on the shores of Dong Mo Lake in Vietnam, measuring 156 cm. long and weighing 93 kg. Visual China Group via Getty A Yangtze giant softshell turtle The Yangtze ...

Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...

Kids’ summer adventures often end in finding cool rocks. But 11-year-old Touren Pope found a prehistoric turtle. Back in July ...

According to a news release from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, the zoo welcomed 41 Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle hatchlings over the summer. SDZWA said that the zoo has become the first ...

The rewilding of 50 captive-bred spotted softshell turtles has sparked hope among conservationists for the future of the rare and threatened species in Vietnam, a country where softshell turtles are ...

After over two decades of patiently waiting, endangered Indian narrow-headed softshell turtles finally bred at the San Diego Zoo. This marks the first time the species has been documented reproducing ...

Recovery of this softshell turtle species now requires working with a global population of only two or possibly three known individuals, though the exact number remains uncertain due to ongoing ...

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By Spoorthy Raman With an evolutionary history of more than 200 million years, turtles and tortoises have outlived dinosaurs and persisted on the planet despite mass extinction events. But around the ...

A dead reptile of its kind washed up on the shores of Dong Mo Lake in Vietnam, measuring 156 cm. long and weighing 93 kg. Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...