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 ...

A creature once revered in ancient Chinese folklore and immortalized in poetry for its playful spirit and perpetual smile is now swimming against extinction. The Yangtze finless porpoise—Asia ...

The work highlights the connection between culture and science. “Poems are actually ancient citizen science,” says study co-author Jiajia Liu, an ecologist at Fudan University in China ...

So Liu and colleagues searched databases of ancient Chinese poems for references to the porpoise, sometimes called the “river pig” or other nicknames. After ruling out references based on ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

To track how this critically endangered porpoise's habitat range has changed over time, a team of biodiversity and conservation experts compiled 724 ancient Chinese poems referencing the porpoise ...

Yes, the world says no, yet it is messy and beautiful. Chris Markham, Copy Editor of the Observer, wrote, "Writing a love poem is an attempt at figuring out what humans have been struggling to ...

I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop ...

We’ve already posted first single “Patterns,” and now they’ve also shared the new six-minute track “Ancient Love.” Mercury Rev have cited beat poet Robert Creeley as one of the ...

“Ancient Love” is a spectral trip where frontman Jonathan Donahue waxes philosophical about the mysteries of the universe atop gorgeous, groovy backing, including some lovely muted trumpet.