Newly discovered turtle species is facing extinction

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 09:51 in Biology & Nature

A new species in the family of Softshell Turtles is described from Northern Vietnam and China by a Hungarian-Vietnamese-German team of researchers. The newly discovered reptile has a distinctly blotched shell and is so critically endangered that it is close to extinction.

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