The Yangtze finless porpoise is one of the most endangered animals in China. Found only in China’s Yangtze River and nearby ...

The idea was that baiji would be bred in this semi-natural reserve and then these individuals would be used to repopulate the main river. But there was a delay between planning and practical action.

The Yangtze River dolphin, also known as the baiji dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer), was a white, fresh-water dolphin native to the Yangtze River and Qiantang River in China as recently as the 1990s.The ...

The Aqua World Ibaraki Prefecture Oarai Aquarium announced June 12 that a baby bottlenose dolphin was born in April, marking the second year i･･･ ...

A new study shows that dolphin mothers use high-pitched sounds to communicate with their babies. Getty Images/iStockphoto “That was true for every one of the moms in the study, all 19 of them ...

A bottlenose dolphin at a Chicago zoo gave birth to a calf early Saturday morning with the help of a fellow mom, in a successful birth recorded on video by zoo staff.

BEIJING, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from China Daily:The Chinese river dolphin — known as 'the panda of the waters' — is revered a ...

WASHINGTON — You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk.

The white dolphin that once thrived in the Yangtze River was declared "functionally extinct" Wednesday after searchers failed to find the rare species in a 1,000-mile stretch of the Chinese river.

Baby Sizes. Yangtze finless porpoises are not the largest in the Phocoenidae porpoise family. ... The Yangtze finless porpoise is related to the now-extinct Yangtze River Baiji dolphin.

It has been more than 20 years since the last confirmed sighting of a wild baiji. These river dolphins are the first cetaceans (the mammal group that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises) to have ...