Published today in Current Biology, a new study shows that the Yangtze finless porpoise has lost over 65% of its historic ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it ...

LHASA -- Chinese engineers extracted a 38.1-meter-long concrete core sample from a dam on Sunday. While setting a new ...

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Ancient Chinese poems provided insights into the decline of the critically endangered Yangtze River's finless porpoise. A ...

Ancient Chinese poems provided unexpected data on the Yangtze finless porpoise's habitat decline, showing a 65% range ...

Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...

Two recent studies published in Biological Conservation and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, led by researchers from the ...

The porpoises likely disappeared from the Yangtze's lakes and tributaries as a direct result of dam constructions in the 1950s that blocked off movement to and from the river's mainstem.

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

According to NASA scientists, the huge amount of water held back by the dam has shifted the distribution of Earth’s mass.

The dam will be 315 metres (about 1,033 feet) high when fully completed. It will be as high as a 100-storey skyscraper, ...