Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population ...

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

This photo taken on Jan. 5, 2021 shows a view of the Wuxi Stele Forest in Yongzhou City, central China's Hunan Province.

The Wuxi Stele Forest in Yongzhou, Hunan Province, is one of China's most remarkable open-air repositories of carved texts.

In a creative fusion of science and literature, researchers trace the past range and decline of a rare Chinese porpoise ...

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

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

New research combines centuries-old Chinese poetry with modern biodiversity science to reveal a 65% decline in the Yangtze ...

with 177 poems, the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368 CE) with 27, the Song Dynasty with 38, and the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE) with just 5 poems. Next, the researchers used the information gathered from the ...

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

Experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise from historic collections across China. The post Ancient ...

Analyzing ancient Chinese poetry allowed researchers to understand where humans went wrong in protecting the now critically ...