Ancient Chinese poems provided insights into the decline of the critically endangered Yangtze River's finless porpoise. A ...

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

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

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

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

Measuring 13 meters long and 3.6 meters wide, it was painted around the mid-10th century, roughly four decades after the fall ...

designed to foster a love for Tang dynasty poetry. 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 ...