Dolphin Thought Extinct Spotted in China – Alexa Olsen

Pollution and shipping were thought to have caused China’s native white dolphin to go extinct, but researchers might have found one surviving dolphin.

From the News Tribune:

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A white dolphin native to China’s Yangtze River that scientists declared extinct last year has possibly been spotted swimming in the wild, offering a small shred of hope for its revival, a researcher said Wednesday.

Wang Ding, a researcher with the Institute of Hydrobiology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said a man saw and shot a video of what appears to be a baiji or white flag dolphin in central China’s Anhui province on Aug. 19.[Full Text]

[Image: A Chinese white dolphin jumps out of the water off of Hong Kong, in this September 15, 2000, file photo. Vincent Yu, AP.]

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