The giant soft-shell turtle, which has a shell the size of a desk and is estimated to weigh about 200 kilograms, was pulled from a lake in central Hanoi on Sunday.

An extremely rare reptile, considered sacred by many, died recently in Vietnam, bringing its species to the edge of extinction. The deceased creature was a Yangtze giant softshell turtle, ...

A B.C. nurse has documented a giant sea turtle swimming off the coast of Haida Gwaii, a collection of islands off B.C.'s northwest coast — a sighting that's being celebrated by conservation ...

A female Giant Yangtze Softshell Turtle, which died during an insemination operation in 2019, surfaces for sunshine at the Suzhou Zoo in east China's Jiangsu province, Nov. 05, 2014. FeatureChina/AP ...

When it comes to speaking their first "words," baby Giant South American river turtles are precocious - they talk to each other before they even hatch.