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

The Yangtze finless porpoise — the world’s only freshwater porpoise — has faced extreme declines in numbers in the past four decades. With fewer than 1,300 individuals left in the wild, scientists in ...

Ancient poems tell the story of an iconic aquatic species' demise over 1,400 years, reveals new research. Endemic to China’s Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its ...

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.

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

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“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.

In an attempt to document the legacy of this legendary species and determine why its population levels have so drastically decreased, a new scientific analysis focuses entirely on the porpoise’s ...

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 ...

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