Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Yangtze finless porpoise is seen at the Baiji Dolphinarium at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in ...

Entanglement in fishing nets and habitat loss are the greatest threats to dolphins. River dolphin populations are severely fragmented due to the building of dams. Some subpopulations of dolphins are ...

BEIJING — A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is "functionally extinct," an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of ...

WUHAN, China (AP) — A dozen sleek grey Yangtze finless porpoises glide inside a vast pool at the Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan as scientists find ways to protect and breed the rare mammals in ...

Over the past week, the media have been inundated with news of the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus)—a species that went extinct about 13,000 years ago. The passenger pigeon. The ...

Yangtze River Dolphin Also known as “baiji,” the Yangtze River dolphin was last seen in 2002. Four years later, a group of researchers traversed 2,000 miles along the Yangtze River to see if they ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A rare freshwater dolphin unique to China's Yangtze River is almost certainly extinct, a Swiss conservationist said after failing to spot a single animal on an expedition which ...

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