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Swinhoe's soft-shelled wonder

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• The last female Yangtze or Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle rests near a pool inside a zoo in Suzhou, China.
• A temporarily captive Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle from Thanh Hoa province in northern Vietnam.
• One of the three Swinhoe's soft-shell turtles in captivity swimming in Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2004.
• A rare Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle surfaces in a lake in northern Vietnam on June 27, 2007.
• Nov. 26: A Swinhoe's soft-shelled turtle, one of four known remaining members of its species, gets transported on a truck to be released to a lake, its natural habitat just outside Hanoi, Vietnam. The fate of one of the world's rarest turtles -- one closely tied to Vietnamese legend -- hung in the balance for several hours Wednesday. Conservationists had been trying to track the 150-pound creature down for two weeks, ever since he was swept away from his natural habitat during heavy floods.
• Nov. 26: Conservationists and forest rangers release a rare turtle, one of the rafetus swinhoei species, back to a lake, its natural habitat just outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Nov. 26: Conservationists and forest set the turtle down on the shore of the lake it calls home just outside Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Nov. 26: The sole Swinhoe's soft-shelled turtle in the wild swims back into the lake it calls home just outside Hanoi, Vietnam.

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