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

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

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

Researchers in South Korea used environmental DNA from water samples to successfully track finless porpoises and dolphins ...

The Yangtze finless porpoise — the world’s only freshwater porpoise — has faced extreme declines in numbers in the past four decades. With fewer than 1,300 individuals left in the wild, scientists in ...

Yangtze finless porpoises only live in the middle-lower Yangtze River basin in eastern China. From the early 1980s until the 2010s, the population steeply declined an estimated 60%, according to a ...