Chinas white dolphin extinct after 20 million years

BEIJING, China (AP) -- An expedition searching for a rare Yangtze River dolphin ended Wednesday without a single sighting and with the team's leader saying one of the world's oldest species was effectively extinct.

The white dolphin known as baiji, shy and nearly blind, dates back some 20 million years. Its disappearance is believed to be the first time in a half-century, since hunting killed off the Caribbean monk seal, that a large aquatic mammal has been driven to extinction.

A few baiji may still exist in their native Yangtze habitat in eastern China but not in sufficient numbers to breed and ward off extinction, said August Pfluger, the Swiss co-leader of the joint Chinese-foreign expedition.

its sad to hear these dolphins were shy and nearly blind. prehaps if they could see better they could have survived longer???


[edit on 25-12-2006 by conspiracymaster]

Originally posted by conspiracymaster

its sad to hear these dolphins were shy and nearly blind. prehaps if they could see better they could have survived longer???

I doubt it. Where can anyone go to escape man and his pollution?

What a horrible loss.

Already posted here:

White Yangtze Dolphin May Be Extinct

and here:

China kill's an entire specie's of Dolphin's

Personaly, the world is only about 6.5 thousand years old. That is what studies of the Bible show. So far the Bible has not been incorrect.