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

The Yangtze porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis) used to be a common sighting in the Yangtze River. Boaters would watch their sleek silhouettes break the surface like ghosts from the deep. Today, ...

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

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

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

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.

Ancient Chinese poems provided unexpected data on the Yangtze finless porpoise's habitat decline, showing a 65% range ...

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.