An orphaned Irrawaddy dolphin rests in the arms of its caretaker at the Marine Endangered Species Veterinary Hospital in Rayong, Thailand. Photograph By Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty On Myanmar’s ...

A Yangtze finless porpoise hunting in China’s Poyang Lake. “Our work fills the gap between the super long-term information we get from fossils and DNA and the recent population surveys. It really ...

WUHAN, China (AP) — A dozen sleek grey Yangtze finless porpoises glide inside a vast pool at the Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan as scientists find ways to protect and breed the rare mammals in ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Irrawaddy dolphins, known for their cooperative fishing with humans, are critically endangered due to gill nets, pollution, and dams. These intelligent marine mammals face extinction across Southeast ...

Chinese scientists are in a battle to save one of the last large animal species living in the Yangtze River – and a complete ban on fishing in the region is helping them. At the Institute of ...

On November 9, Lenovo, in collaboration with the Shanghai Natural History Museum, launched the “Awakening Earth’s Majestic Creatures with AI” digital exhibition. This groundbreaking project uses ...

IUCN Red List classifies the tucuxi river dolphin as endangered It’s official – all five of the world’s river dolphin species are now threatened with extinction after the IUCN Red List re-classified ...

BEIJING — A rare, nearly blind white dolphin that survived for millions of years is "functionally extinct," an international expedition declared Wednesday after ending a fruitless six-week search of ...

The goddess of the Yangtze -- The Amazon of the East -- The aquatic panda -- East meets West -- The rarest animal in the world -- The politics of extinction -- End game -- The hunting of the snark -- ...