Overfishing and dam construction wiped out this ancient Goliath.
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One of the largest freshwater predators on earth has been killed off in Asia’s longest river, with overfishing and pollution blamed for its extinction. The Chinese paddlefish, native to the Yangtze river and known as the “king of freshwater fish”, has been declared extinct in the latest disaster for
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BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Psephurus gladius, a Chinese paddlefish living in the Yangtze River, was declared extinct, according to a paper from Chinese experts at the Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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#SundayFishSketch 4th page finished! The last additions are the recently extinct Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius), the convergent flying fish Potanichthys and the infamous Scalacurvichthys (the weirder pycnodonts will come soon)🐟🐠
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The new decade 2020 began with the sad announcement that another species is now extinct—the Chinese Paddlefish (Psephurus gladius), a close relative of the sturgeon family. A paper by Chinese scientists concluded (based on IUCN criteria) that after 200 million years, the "Panda of the Yangtze" which reached up to 7m is now gone from the Yangtze forever. Although the paper received wide coverage in international media, unfortunately it only marked the scientific notification of a fate already…
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