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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
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Category: Mammals
Posted on: December 14, 2006 12:08 AM, by John Lynch
AP is reporting that the Yangtze River dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) is "effectively extinct" following a 20 million year existence on this planet. A six week search yielded no sightings, down from thirteen sightings in 1997. It is believed that overfishing and sub-aquatic sonar pollution led to the extinction and that the species is the first cetacean to be rendered extinct by human action.
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Comments
I don't suppose there's a breeding population in captivity?
Posted by: Caledonian | December 14, 2006 8:37 AM
Unsurprising, as I explain here.
Posted by: Shelley | December 14, 2006 8:37 AM
Caledonian, I read elsewhere that the last captive specimen died a year or two ago. So no hope there. Someone has suggested we keep the DNA and resurect them later.
Posted by: guthrie | December 15, 2006 7:27 AM