Cleveland Zoo Researchers Find Rare Turtle in Vietnam The Plain Dealer

A Vietnamese legend and the search for a rare turtle have come together in a village west of Hanoi, Vietnam. The Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle is so rare, only three were known to exist before researchers discovered the rare turtle living in a lake near Hanoi. If this rare species can be discovered living in the wild, is there hope for other extinct or nearly extinct animals to be discovered? Also, Elephantopotamus Discovered.

Big Cat Seen Prowling in Barongarook Geelong Advertiser

Tales of large felines prowling across Australia, where there are supposed to be no large native cats, continue to make waves. This time the culprit cat was spotted in Barongarook, an area where large cat sightings have been regularly made. Meanwhile, in Illinois, a state where the experts claimed native American cougars were extinct, a Chicago policeman had to put down a 150-pound specimen in a back alley. Loren Coleman has the story, with commentary and photos in Cougar Killed in Chicago and video here. And there's more from the big cat trail in the Cryptomundo report Devilish Melanistic Panthers.