In the heart of the Yangtze River, a playful but critically endangered creature, often called the “Smiling Angel”, swims ...

The Yangtze river’s finless porpoise is one of the very few porpoises (relatives of dolphins and whales) that live in fresh water. Its small size and cute 'smile' make it much loved in China and ...

Allow me to continue that trend. Many of us have heard wave riders wax poetic about the novel sensations of finless surfing, ...

The Penang Fisheries Department has confirmed the discovery of a dolphin carcass found stranded on the shore near a hotel in Teluk Bahang near here ...

For a hot second there a few years back, finless surfing almost caught on. People like Derek Hynd made us regular folk think that we too could glide effortlessly, friction and fins free ...

Despite a last-ditch effort to save the species, it was a case of too little too late. Now experts are focusing their efforts on another species in the Yangtze River – the finless porpoise - a close ...

The Smiling Dolphin meme features a photo of a Yangtze finless porpoise with a slight smile and is used to express awkwardness or frustration. The image of the creature first appeared online in ...

A disturbing pattern of dolphin deaths and injuries to protected marine species along Goa's coastline has triggered alarm ...

In Europe, research from Swiss university ETH Zurich shows that trees in cities reduce mercury levels by up to 53ºF. Plus, ...

If you were a god, would you give up yourself and save the people? For thousands of years, the Finless Porpoise has been protecting the people of the Yangtze River with its wind-worshipping dance.

This is the Yangtze finless porpoise, a beacon of hope for the river's ecosystem. One particular porpoise, known as "No. 1575," recently found a new guardian and ally: Lenovo. The Beginning of a ...

Levine didn’t really pause much to look around until 2015. He’d rented and sold out the 5,600-capacity Theater at Madison ...