In the golden light of early morning, a research vessel glided across China's Yangtze River, while a mysterious device ...

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

In the golden light of early morning, a research vessel glided across China's Yangtze River, while a mysterious device ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of references to the porpoises. According to Mei, the fact that a freshwater mammal ...

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population history, according to a new study.

In China, populations of the Yangtze finless porpoise have declined over the past 1,400 years. Detailed surveys of its range ...

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

The porpoises likely disappeared from the Yangtze's lakes and tributaries as a direct result of dam constructions in the 1950s that blocked off movement to and from the river's mainstem. Two other ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a perpetual smile on its face. To track how this ...

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 ...