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 ...

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 ...

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But the most robust survey data on the porpoise have come from just the past few decades. To get historical information, Liu says, “we can only rely on other forms of data, like documentaries ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An attempt to put tracking devices on three porpoises caught in the North Sea by Wageningen researchers has resulted in the death of one of the animals, One of the porpoises was successfully fitted ...

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 ...

Poyang Lake in Jiangxi serves as a vital habitat for the porpoise. The 2022 survey showed there were 492 finless porpoises in the lake alone, which accounted for nearly 40 percent of the total ...