One of the world's rarest turtles, a Yangtze giant softshell or Rafetus swinhoei died in China leaving just three known survivors of the species. The female turtle died in the Suzhou zoo in southern China. Experts tried to artificially inseminate the creature, which was over 90 years old, for the fifth time shortly before she died.

One of our four remaining Yangtze turtles dies in China. (2019, April 17). Panay News, p. 11.