Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed ... and ideas shaping our world today. A Ming Dynasty woodblock-printed illustration from ...

Thanks to over 700 Ancient Chinese poems, experts can now accurately map the decline ... It really shows how powerful it can be to combine art and biodiversity conservation.” A Ming Dynasty ...

“Chinese poetry, this ancient art form, can be a serious scientific tool,” he says. “Using the past to understand the present, ‘decoding’ the stories behind the art: It’s not just ...

A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...

The text offers a wealth of information on ancient Chinese cooking practices, offering recipes from steamed fish to chicken soup. After bringing together 10 students from Hunan University – and ...

Two Chinese scientists believe their country ... In their investigation, the astronomers used image processing technology to convert ancient records into measurable celestial coordinates ...

To track how this critically endangered porpoise's habitat range has changed over time, a team of biodiversity and conservation experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise ...

So Liu and colleagues searched databases of ancient Chinese poems for references to the porpoise, sometimes called the “river pig” or other nicknames. After ruling out references based on ...