You wouldn’t usually expect biologists to turn to ancient literature, much less poetry, for their answers. However, in order ...

A team of conservation and wildlife specialists affiliated with several institutions in China has successfully released two ...

The narrow-ridged finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis ... causing the IUCN to list the species as endangered. Entanglement in gillnets proves to be the biggest threat to the survival ...

climate change – the list of threats against Earth’s species seems only to be growing. In the midst of these struggles lives a small population of critically endangered freshwater porpoises ...

The main species of porpoise in the Gulf of Maine is the harbor ... Swimming with the dolphins is off my bucket list. I am just about the same size as a porpoise. I’ll just continue to enjoy ...

I recognized immediately that it belonged to the vaquita, a species of porpoise found only in the northern reaches of the Gulf of California. Its eyes are airbrushed in shadows, ringed by a white ...

A Yangtze finless porpoise hunting in Poyang Lake in China. The study “builds on many prior examples on how historical texts of various kinds can help understand past species distributions and ...

Despite this, the experts remain optimistic about the species' recovery. Once on the brink of extinction, the Yangtze finless porpoise, an ancient species of the Yangtze River basin, has shown ...

Official records such as local gazettes and county chronicles didn’t have any information about the porpoises — only terrestrial megafauna like tigers and elephants, species that have frequent ...

A tiny snail was recently named after painter Pablo Picasso. It’s one of many species named after celebrities or artists, but some researchers question whether species should be named after ...

The English Channel has become a hotspot for a species of porpoise, a charity has said. It was feared overfishing had stopped the Channel from sustaining harbour porpoises. But conservationists ...

(Photo courtesy of Jennifer Crespo) The vaquita, which means “little cow” in Spanish, is the world’s smallest porpoise and lives ... an endangered species prized for its swim bladder.