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

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.

As a poet, playwright, performer, and educator, Genny Lim shines a light on the Asian American experience. But the native San ...

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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.

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

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 ...

Thanks to over 700 Ancient Chinese poems, experts can now accurately map the decline of the porpoise. The poems date back nearly 2,000 years, spanning multiple dynasties. Since then, the Yangtze ...