The Yangtze finless porpoise population has declined to a mere 1,000 individuals, making the endangered species even more rare than the wild giant panda, the 2012 Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Survey ...

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 ...

The Smiling Dolphin meme features a photo of a Yangtze finless porpoise with a slight smile and is used to express awkwardness or frustration. The image of the creature first appeared online in 2023 ...

Decades of overfishing and habitat degradation led to huge declines in freshwater biodiversity in China's longest river, but ...

In a bid to save the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise, the Chinese government is capturing a small group of the animals and relocating them to a secure conservation area. The species is ...

They called it the “Goddess of the Yangtze” — a creature so rare that it was believed to bring fortune and protection to local fishermen and all those lucky enough to spot it. But overfishing and ...

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

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(CNN) — A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to ancient poems. The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the ...