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.

The 27 dolphins had become stranded in isolated lagoons disconnected from the Grande River due to low water levels.

Competing with the maybe-alive maybe-not ivory-billed woodpecker in the United States for Most Ethereal Species, a rare Chinese river dolphin thought to be extinct as of last December may have ...

BEIJING – A rare white dolphin native to China's Yangtze River that scientists declared extinct last year has been spotted swimming in the wild, state media said Wednesday. The baiji or white ...

I'm feeling a bit empty. The experts who have been following the fate of fewer than a dozen freshwater dolphins left in China's vast Yangtze River have declared them lost and the species extinct ...

What happened to the baiji river dolphin? 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 ...

An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct. The ...

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

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.

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 ...