A study published by the Natural History Museum reveals the heartbreaking extinction of the Baiji dolphin, a species once native to China’s Yangtze River. This tragic loss marks the first known ...

When the Baiji Dolphin was declared "functionally extinct" in 2006, it was a once-in-25-million-year event. Never before had a whole species of dolphin been wiped off the planet because of human ...

SHANGHAI, Dec. 13 -- For millions of years, the Chinese river dolphin basked in the waters of the mighty Yangtze, a gray phantom more than six feet long with a sharp snout and tiny eyes. The endearing ...

An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct. The ...

More than 99% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct - and today, many scientists believe we are driving a sixth mass extinction. From the baiji dolphin of China’s Yangtze River to the ...

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 ...

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The Baiji, the Yangtze River dolphin, was officially declared ‘functionally extinct’ this month. The Baiji is survived by other river dolphins, all themselves threatened. See All Key Ideas In the ...

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As a child in the 1980s, I was convinced that an ecological disaster was imminent. Scattered into my afternoon television programs were commercials about the dangers of soil erosion and acid rain. The ...