The baiji, Lipotes vexillifer, was a species of dolphin found exclusively in China’s Yangtze River. It’s sometimes also known as the white dolphin or Chinese river dolphin. Only a handful of dolphin ...

The Yangtze River dolphin, also known as the baiji dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), was a white, fresh-water dolphin native to the Yangtze River and Qiantang River in China as recently as the 1990s. The ...

“The baiji, or Yangtze River dolphin, was this unique and beautiful creature – there was nothing quite like it,” said Samuel Turvey, a British zoologist and conservationist who spent more ...

WUHAN -- A white-flag dolphin has been seen in Yangtze River in east China, just days after a leading Chinese scientist said the animal was likely extinct. A baiji dolphin. [File] A man with a ...

"The Yangtze river dolphin was a remarkable mammal that separated from all other species over 20 million years ago," Dr Turvey explained. "This extinction represents the disappearance of a complete ...

There are only five species of river dolphins left worldwide, all of which face threats. The study warns that India could face a disaster similar to the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin in ...

The number of endangered "smiling angel" dolphins in the Yangtze River saw a rebound to 1,249 last year, up one-fifth from five years ago, after the implementation of a fishing ban in the Yangtze ...

That said, the authors acknowledge that some historical references of the river porpoise could be confused with the now-extinct baiji, a freshwater dolphin that lived in the Yangtze. But this ...