Published in Current Biology, their results show that the porpoise's range has decreased by at least 65% over the past 1,400 years, with the majority of this decline occurring in the past century ...

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A Yangtze finless porpoise appears to "smile" at the Baiji Dolphinarium at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Wang Chaoqun Over the last 1,400 years, populations of the Yangtze finless porpoise ...

Fearing it would be illegal to keep the dead porpoise, the fishermen decided to throw it back to sea. But before they did, a fisherman snapped some photos of the surreal sight. The pictures of the ...

But the most robust survey data on the porpoise have come from just the past few decades. To get historical information, Liu says, “we can only rely on other forms of data, like documentaries ...