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The baiji (Lipotes vexillifer), is a probably extinct species of freshwater dolphin native to the Yangtze river system in China. It is thought to be the first dolphin species driven to extinction due to the impact of humans. This dolphin is listed as "critically endangered: possibly extinct" by the IUCN, has not been seen in 20 years, and ...
2. Baiji Dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) Known as the Yangtze river dolphin, or the Chinese lake dolphin, the Baiji was declared functionally extinct in 2007. This was announced after a dedicated six ...
Lipotidae is a family of river dolphins containing the possibly extinct baiji of China and the fossil genus Parapontoporia from the Late Miocene and Pliocene of the Pacific coast of North America. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The genus Prolipotes , which is based on a mandible fragment from Neogene coastal deposits in Guangxi, China, [ 3 ] has been classified ...
Despite the world's last captive thylacine dying in 1936, the secretive animal wasn't declared extinct until 1986. More recently in 2007 the Baiji dolphin , a rare river dolphin native to China ...
When dinosaurs got big. Another period of extreme volcanic activity 201 million years ago marked the end-Triassic mass extinction. It has been linked to the breakup of the Pangea supercontinent ...
The subspecies became globally extinct in the wild after the last wild animals were hunted in Poland during World War I, but survived in captivity. [82] It was reintroduced to the Altai in 1982-1984. [71] Arabian oryx: Oryx leucoryx: Arabian Peninsula Extinct in the wild in 1972 and reintroduced in Jiddat al-Harasis, Oman in 1980. [83]
Colossal Biosciences, which aims to revive extinct species, has raised an additional $200 million. Critics say de-extinction in its purest sense isn’t possible. Scientists say they are close to ...
As far as I'm concerned,the number of Baiji should be around 1000 to 3000 in the 1950s at most.It's not possible that there were around 6000 Baiji in the Yangtze River.Also,it seems truly incredible that Baiji had declined rapidly from 6000 animals to only a few hundred during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.