They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...

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Ancient Chinese poems provided insights into the decline of the critically endangered Yangtze River's finless porpoise. A ...

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Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...

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Published today in Current Biology, a new study shows that the Yangtze finless porpoise has lost over 65% of its historic ...

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, May 6 In 2020, Hess, a culture critic for The New York Times who focuses on the digital world ... including a Tang dynasty poet, a 17th-century Dutch scholar and a ...