A close-up of a "smiling" Yangtze finless porpoise at the Baiji Dolphinarium of the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Endemic to China’s Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless ...

A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to ancient poems. The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the Tang ...

It's part of a larger problem. Scientists make devastating announcement about once-abundant creature: 'It is a deplorable record' first appeared on The Cool Down.

The decline could be due to the impacts of climate change or because they are feeding elsewhere [Getty Images] There has been a 97% drop in sightings of porpoises around an island off the north Wales ...

Napans strolling along the river Sunday may have caught a rare sight — a harbor porpoise surfacing in the Oxbow. By Monday, the animal was still cruising the same stretch of water.[ related_articles ...

Napans strolling along the river Sunday may have caught a rare sight — a harbor porpoise surfacing in the Oxbow. By Monday, the animal was still cruising the same stretch of water. Local resident ...