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

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

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

The Tang dynasty (618–907) is known as the golden age of Chinese literature. Its poems typically have eight lines of five or seven syllables each, following strict tonal patterns and parallel ...