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

Learn more about the Yangtze finless porpoise and how researchers used ancient poems to map out it's habitat decline.

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

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

Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...

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

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

Ancient Chinese poems provided insights into the decline of the critically endangered Yangtze River's finless porpoise. A ...

To trace the contours of its slow disappearance, scientists turned not to satellites or sensors — but to the pages of ancient Chinese ... Landscape, Yangtze River, China, 2008.