Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

Published today in Current Biology, a new study shows that the Yangtze finless porpoise has lost over 65% of its historic ...

New research combines centuries-old Chinese poetry with modern biodiversity science to reveal a 65% decline in the Yangtze ...

Analyzing ancient Chinese poetry allowed researchers to understand where humans went wrong in protecting the now critically ...

So, once we found these poems, we had to research each poet's ... Two other species endemic to the Yangtze -- the baiji dolphin and the Chinese paddlefish -- have gone functionally extinct over ...

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

In a creative fusion of science and literature, researchers trace the past range and decline of a rare Chinese porpoise ...

Experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise from historic collections across China. The post Ancient ...

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