Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

Learn more about the Yangtze finless porpoise and how researchers used ancient poems to map out it's habitat decline.

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

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

Image credits: “Sancai Tuhui,” compiled by Wang Qi The ... challenges in this research was just the sheer number of Chinese poems out there, and the fact that every poet had such a different ...

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