A critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise swims in a tank at a conservation facility in Wuhan, China.Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua/Getty Images
By Heather Chen, CNN
Updated 12:01 AM EDT, Sun September 18, 2022
CNN—
They called it the “Goddess of the Yangtze” – a creature so rare that it was believed to bring fortune and protection to local fishermen and all those lucky enough to spot it.
But overfishing andhuman activitydrove it to the brink of extinction and it hasn’t been seen in decades.
“The baiji, or Yangtze River dolphin, was this unique and beautiful creature – there was nothing quite like it,” said Samuel Turvey, a British zoologist and conservationist who spent more than two decades in China trying to track the animal down.
“It was around for tens of millions of years and was in its own mammal family. There are other river dolphins in the world but…
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