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

New research combines centuries-old Chinese poetry with modern biodiversity science to reveal a 65% decline in the Yangtze ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is ... Two other species endemic to the Yangtze—the baiji dolphin and the Chinese paddlefish—have gone functionally extinct ...

Analyzing ancient Chinese poetry allowed researchers to understand where humans went wrong in protecting the now critically ...

A study of 724 ancient poems has revealed how far the Yangtze finless porpoise once roamed within the mighty river, allowing ...

Experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise from historic collections across China. The post Ancient ...

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

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

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