Ernesto BENAVIDES/AFP/AFP Peruvian paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled the 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric porpoise found near the country's Pacific coast. The fossil, which measures 3.5 ...

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 ...

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Napans strolling along the river Sunday may have caught a rare sight — a harbor porpoise surfacing in the Oxbow. By Monday, the animal was still cruising the same stretch of water.[ related_articles ...

Scientists in China are ramping up conservation efforts for the rare creatures of the Yangtze - the country's longest river. The Yangtze finless porpoise and the Chinese sturgeon are among the aquatic ...

There has been a 97% drop in sightings of porpoises around an island off the north Wales coast, despite the area being protected, a study has found. The decline near Bardsey Island, off the Llŷn ...

Peruvian paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled the 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric porpoise found near the country's Pacific coast.