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Ancient poetry unveils hidden history of critically endangered finless porpoises, scientists say

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By Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to ancient poems. The scientists pored over more than 700 ancient Chinese poems from the Tang through the Qing dynasties that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to find out where and when poets described seeing the animal because little is known about its population history. The Yangtze finless porpoise — the…

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Ancient poetry unveils history of critically endangered finless porpoises, scientists say

Scientists studied more than 700 ancient Chinese poems that mention the Yangtze finless porpoise to determine its population history, according to a new study.

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Chinese researchers have used old poems to find traces of a species on the way to extinction: The Marsupe without arypian Yangtze

More researchers from China have called on an unusual method to save a species found at critical risk of extinction: they have analyzed over 700 poems written between the Tang and Qing dynastys, in which...

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