Ancient Chinese poems provided insights into the decline of the critically endangered Yangtze River's finless porpoise. A ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

Over the last 1,400 years, populations of the Yangtze finless porpoise have dramatically declined in China. But intensive ...