BEIJING, CHINA (CBS News)— Scientists say a giant fish species that managed to survive at least 150 million years has been completely wiped out by human activity. Research published in the Science of ...

Researchers say that the last fish of its kind likely died between 2005 and 2010 Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has officially verified that the Chinese paddlefish and wild Yangtze sturgeon are extinct on their list of threatened species. The Chinese paddlefish ...

The Chinese paddlefish and its close relatives have been around for at least 200 million years. The species, reaching up to 23 feet in length, survived unimaginable changes and upheavals, such as the ...

Once a delicacy eaten by Chinese emperors, one of the world's largest freshwater fish just went extinct. Nicknamed the "water tiger" and "panda of the Yangtze," the Chinese paddlefish is reportedly ...

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese paddlefish's sharp, protruding snout made it one of the largest freshwater species in the world. Since scientists declared it extinct in a research paper published last week ...

The Chinese paddlefish, one of the largest freshwater fish species which had survived for millions of years, has been declared extinct, according to new research by fisheries experts in China. The ...

BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese paddlefish's sharp, protruding snout made it one of the largest freshwater species in the world. Since scientists declared it extinct in a research paper published last week ...

The Chinese paddlefish — one of the world’s largest freshwater fish — has officially been declared extinct after surviving some 150 million years. The giant species, which measured as long as 23 feet ...

One of the planet’s largest freshwater fish is extinct. The Chinese paddlefish, once a delicacy eaten by Chinese emperors, was dubbed the “Panda of the Yangtze.” But after an exhaustive review, ...