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

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

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

Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...

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

Learn more about the Yangtze finless porpoise and how researchers used ancient poems to map out it's habitat decline.

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

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

Once on the brink of extinction, Yangtze finless porpoises in China are rebounding, though they remain critically endangered. Yangtze finless porpoises, affectionately referred to as the Yangtze ...

Hong Kong researchers have some rare good news about Chinese white dolphins and their close relative the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise, both listed as vulnerable species. In 2021 the number of ...

On the 100th anniversary of the last shooting of a wild grizzly in the state, you’ve got to wonder why the bears we exterminated were made the symbol of the state. My research shows that a ...

Once on the brink of extinction, Yangtze finless porpoises in China are rebounding, though they remain critically endangered. Yangtze finless porpoises, affectionately referred to as the Yangtze River ...