Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

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

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is ...

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

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

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

Yangtze finless porpoises only live in the middle-lower Yangtze River basin in eastern China ... archaeology — but it’s less often used for wildlife research, Corti said.

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

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