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 ...

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 ...

Maybe-extinct Chinese river dolphin maybe spotted Competing with the maybe-alive maybe-not ivory-billed woodpecker in the United States for Most Ethereal Species, a rare Chinese river dolphin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Chinese alligator at a zoo in Shanghai. Native to the Yangtze, their numbers in the wild are drastically declining and could worsen as the river shrinks and dries up.

The Chinese river dolphin — known as "the panda of the waters" — is revered as both a symbol of the Yangtze River's ecosystem and an important part of the exotic wildlife portfolio that has ...

As a relative of the Chinese river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), which was last seen alive in 2002, Parapontoporia offers insights into the transition from a marine habitat to a freshwater ...