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

A study of 724 ancient poems has revealed how far the Yangtze finless porpoise ... and they are almost always rare. However, when people love an animal or plant enough to include sightings in their ...

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 ...

Parts of two previously unknown poems by the Greek lyric poet Sappho have been discovered on an ancient papyrus ... seems to be a love poem. In a preliminary version of a paper to be published ...

In H.D.’s poem, Helen isn’t seen through ... Now there’s nothing not to love. Some contemporary poets have grown suspicious of ancient myth—finding it fussy, even snooty—H.D.’s use ...

Ancient Chinese poems provided unexpected data on the Yangtze finless porpoise's habitat decline, showing a 65% range ...

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

To track how this critically endangered porpoise's habitat range has changed over time, a team of biodiversity and conservation experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise ...

The work highlights the connection between culture and science. “Poems are actually ancient citizen science,” says study co-author Jiajia Liu, an ecologist at Fudan University in China ...