The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the Tang through the Qing dynasties that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to find out where and when poets described seeing ...

Published in Current Biology, their results show that the porpoise's range has decreased by at least 65% over the past 1,400 years, with the majority of this decline occurring in the past century ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

A dead porpoise has washed up on a popular beach. It was found on Redcar beach, Teesside, on Saturday but was already dead when a medic from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) arrived at ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of ...

In 2005, Deborah Giles saw something she’ll never forget—a dead porpoise, riding the snouts of a pod of orcas off Washington State. “What on Earth is happening?” wondered Giles ...

It documented an attack by a group of bottlenose dolphins in Wales on a solitary porpoise. This behavior was not as unusual as I assumed. So, how does this pertain to the Gulf of Maine?

It's called a big bubble curtain, it works a bit like a giant jacuzzi, and it helps protect porpoises from the massive underwater noise caused by wind farm construction. A very large, perforated ...

YES. GOOD ONE. ED. YEAH. YOU REMEMBER A FEW YEARS AGO WE SAW A PORPOISE OUT IN THE DEEPER PART OF THE HARBOR, OVER THERE BY THE GAS TANK. THIS TIME ONE CAME INTO THIS. THIS SMALL INLET NEAR TINIAN ...

The body of a porpoise was discovered with its head cut off on a Welsh beach. The small dolphin-like animal was found on Aberffraw beach on Anglesey on Sunday morning by a couple who were walking ...