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

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

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

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 ...

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.

A close-up of a "smiling" Yangtze finless porpoise at the Baiji Dolphinarium of the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Endemic to China’s Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless ...

(CNN) — A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to ancient poems. The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems ...