Image credit: ori2uru /Flickr Researchers often wondered whether the finless porpoise , which has a range from Japan to China, India to the Persian Gulf—in fresh and salt water—might not be a single species. New research , however, indicates that at least one group—which lives in China’s Yangtze River—is genetically distinct from Neophocaena phocaenoides as a whole. If verified, … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Newly Identified Porpoise Nearly Too Endangered to Save