Why it's awesome: Cantor's giant softshell turtles — named in ... jaws that are strong enough to crush bone. Like other soft-shell turtle species, they are thought to have the ability to extract ...

What it eats: Fish, crustaceans, mollusks, frogs, insects, birds, small mammals Why it's awesome: Cantor's giant softshell ...

One of just four Yangtze giant softshell turtles remaining on the planet has died. The turtle, estimated to be over 100 years old, was found dead in a lake in central Hanoi, Vietnam, on Tuesday.

The Yangtze giant softshell turtles thrive in muddy water and can weigh up to 90 kg (200 pounds) One of the world's rarest turtles, a Yangtze giant softshell, has died in China, leaving just three ...

The footage, recorded from a low angle to make the turtle look bigger, showed the animal slowly shuffling along a beach.

Conservationists, including from the University of Portsmouth, uncovered the nesting site of the "secretive" Cantor's giant softshell turtle. The species, which is native to the rivers of south ...

"It was quite exciting to see that they looked exactly like soft-shelled snake or turtle eggs," Wiemann told ... once in the giant Sauropods like Titanosaurs; and once in the Therapods (like ...

The Pacific leatherback population has declined by 90 percent over the past 40 years, mostly because longline and gillnet fishing for tuna and swordfish entangles and drowns these large, ancient, soft ...