Your ancestors were hauling massive whale bones up steep cliffs and dragging them miles inland to their cave homes 20,000 years ago. New research reveals that Stone Age humans were systematically ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A team of scientists in China turned to an unusual source to track ...

Ancient poems tell the story of charismatic river porpoise's decline over the past 1,400 years Date: May 5, 2025 Source: Cell Press Summary: Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless ...

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 ...

The whale, dolphin and porpoise or Cetacea collection at the Museum holds many ... A southern bottlenose whale, Hyperoodon planifrons, vertebra showing damage to the seventh thoracic vertebra. The ...

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 ...

The first was a lumbar vertebrae from a seal ... followed by a seal pelvis and then a fragment of a “Porpoise Maxilla, likely Harbor Porpoise (the bone to which the upper teeth attach ...

Populations of this small porpoise have plummeted at an astonishing rate since ... Knaub, along with her mentors, previously used similar equipment to study thresher shark vertebrae, a study that is ...

The Smiling Dolphin meme features a photo of a Yangtze finless porpoise with a slight smile and is used to express awkwardness or frustration. The image of the creature first appeared online in ...