SHANGHAI, Dec. 13 -- For millions of years, the Chinese river dolphin basked in the waters of the mighty Yangtze, a gray phantom more than six feet long with a sharp snout and tiny eyes.

Chinese river dolphin nearly extinct says official Chinese river dolphin nearly extinct says official mongabay.com December 3, 2006 [Updated Dec. 5] Xinhua, China’s state news agency, ...

Researchers are particularly interested in river dolphins because they are so rare. Today, only four species are alive, and all of them are endangered. (One of them, the Chinese river dolphin, is ...

It’s sometimes also known as the white dolphin or Chinese river dolphin. Only a handful of dolphin species live in the world’s river systems. Although they’re only distantly related, river dolphins ...

The now-extinct Chinese sturgeon: this one was released into the Yangtze River back in 2015. Visual China Group/Getty Images Few would deny the importance and symbolism of the Yangtze.

A dolphin declared functionally extinct 10 years ago may have been spotted by Chinese conservationists in the Yangtze river. The last confirmed sighting of the Chinese river dolphin was in 2007, a ...

As a relative of the Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), which was last seen alive in 2002, Parapontoporia offers ...

It's sometimes also known as the white dolphin or Chinese river dolphin. Only a handful of dolphin species live in the world's river systems. Although they are only distantly related, river dolphins ...