Baghdad hit by deadly car bomb

"A car bomb blew up in Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding four others, an Interior Ministry official said. The Sunday attack underscored the fragility of relative calm in the Iraqi capital; violence levels...

Chinese River Dolphin Back From The Brink

I recently reported (here's the article) that the " "The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct," reads a press release".  However, a businessman in China filmed what appeared to be a "big...

The Chinese dolphin might not be extinct

"Scientists declared the white dolphin, native to China's Yangtze river, extinct last year. But there is a shred of hope: the animal may have been spotted swimming in the wild. Wang Ding, a researcher with the Institute of Hydrobiology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences,...

Chinese River Dolphins Extinct

"The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct," reads a press release from the baiji.org foundation, a group dedicated to the study and protection of this rare fresh water dolphin.The foundation...

Farewell to the Yangtze dolphin

"The search for China's rarest dolphin has had an unhappy ending with scientists fearing it is lost forever "

Older Than Mankind... And Gone Forever

"For 20 million years, the baiji -- a freshwater dolphin -- lived in China's Yangzte river, making it one of Earth's oldest living species. To give you an idea of what that time frame means, the earliest modern...

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