Hope for Southeast Asia
June 21, 2017
©Yoeung Sun/WCS
The months-old blob seen above is an Asian giant softshell turtle. Scientists long thought this species was extinct in the Cambodian portion of the Mekong River—until they discovered some stragglers in the early 2000s.
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