For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is ...

A 2018 reconstruction project of a hillside road in the capital of the Shanxi Province led to unearthing the tomb, but ...

BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have mapped the 1,400-year distribution history of the Yangtze finless porpoise through an innovative analysis of classic Chinese poetry.

A cliffside Buddhist carving dating back to the Northern Qi (550-577) to Sui Dynasty (581-618) was recently discovered in ...

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

Shi Shen's Star Catalogue, also called the Star Manual of Master Shi, was deduced to be the world's oldest by scientists ...

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

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