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

In a creative fusion of science and literature, researchers trace the past range and decline of a rare Chinese porpoise ...

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

Shi Shen's Star Catalogue, also called the Star Manual of Master Shi, was deduced to be the world's oldest by scientists ...

Learn more about the Yangtze finless porpoise and how researchers used ancient poems to map out it's habitat decline.

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

With international travel to China on the rise ... Invented in the Song Dynasty, it was created in a form closer to a bao and had a thicker, leavened skin that was stuffed with a gelatin broth ...

The fresco, Wutai Mountain Map, in Cave 61 features 196 ... "Until then, it was widely believed that no Tang Dynasty wooden structures had survived in China. The couple's discovery overturned ...

The topography, rendered primarily in green and light brown, evokes the aesthetic of qinglyu shanshui — the "blue-and-green ...

By the time of the Tang dynasty (AD618–907), China was enjoying a golden age. Silk Road trade flourished as two more technological leaps had a profound impact on the country's fortunes ...