The pair of eggs were laid by a 220-pound (100 kilograms) female on Feb. 11; the albino baby hatched on May 1 and its darker sibling emerged on May 5. The baby tortoises each weighed just 1.8 ...

A dead reptile of its kind washed up on the shores ... but it was "almost certainly" the last known female Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei). "It was a large female that obviously ...