The turtle was the last confirmed female in the world when she died during fertility treatment, raising the grim prospect that the species may now be functionally extinct
One of the world’s rarest turtles, a Yangtze giant softshell, has died in a Chinese zoo, leaving only three of the critically endangered species left.
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