Yangtze River Dolphin May Have Gone Extinct

An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct.

The white dolphin known in Chinese as "baiji," shy and nearly blind, dates back some 20 million years.

Its disappearance is believed to be the first time in a half-century, since hunting killed off the Caribbean monk seal, that a large aquatic mammal has been driven to extinction.



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applekisses said:

An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct.

The white dolphin known in Chinese as "baiji," shy and nearly blind, dates back some 20 million years.

Its disappearance is believed to be the first time in a half-century, since hunting killed off the Caribbean monk seal, that a large aquatic mammal has been driven to extinction.



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SFT said:

applekisses said:

An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct.

The white dolphin known in Chinese as "baiji," shy and nearly blind, dates back some 20 million years.

Its disappearance is believed to be the first time in a half-century, since hunting killed off the Caribbean monk seal, that a large aquatic mammal has been driven to extinction.



We've gotta take better care of the planet, people

http://www.foxnews.com/st...26,00.html

The yangtze river dolphin was declared effectively extinct already about a year ago. This is old news to me....but I guess they've kept searching.

Either way, truly tragic

I remember a couple years ago when the one at Pittsburgh Zoo died. So sad.

The news link is from 2006, well and truly deaded by now it seems yes. This dolphin and thousands of other smaller less vaunted animals crushed beneath the human virus.

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