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

Xixi, located less than five kilometers from West Lake in the west of Hangzhou, is China's first national wetland park. The ...

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

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

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

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

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.

Endemic to China's Yangtze River ... people -- including many prolific poets such as Qianlong, the emperor of the Qing dynasty -- relied on the river and its tributaries to travel around the ...

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

However, the most powerful reminder of the progression of time lies not in the transformation of color but in the visible ...