In China, populations of the Yangtze finless porpoise have declined over the past 1,400 years. Detailed surveys of its range ...

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

Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population history, according to a new study.

The work highlights the connection between culture and science. “Poems are actually ancient citizen science,” says study co-author Jiajia Liu, an ecologist at Fudan University in China, to McKenzie ...

To track the species' decline, researchers have turned to an unusual source— ancient Chinese poetry. Researchers analyzed 724 ancient Chinese poems that referenced the Yangtze porpoise.

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of references to the porpoises. According to Mei, the fact that a freshwater mammal ...

To track how this critically endangered porpoise's habitat range has changed over time, a team of biodiversity and conservation experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise ...

“Poems are actually ancient citizen science,” says study co-author Jiajia Liu, an ecologist at Fudan University in China, to McKenzie Prillaman at Science News. “These data are not perfect.

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