A finless porpoise was found dead last Sunday morning in Huangshi City Park in Hubei Province, the Changjiang Times reported.
“Such an enormous finless porpoise is rarely seen,” said Dr. Hao Yujiang with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, brimming over with grief. The preliminary examination revealed that the marine creature was an adult female, measuring about 1.65 meters in length and weighing about 70 kilograms…. The autopsy also found that her liver and other organs had turned black, suggesting that water pollution may be the culprit. To fully confirm this hypothesis further examinations are currently underway….[Full Text]
(Image: A team of ad hoc experts did an autopsy to determine the cause of death, via China.org)