After surviving 20m yrs, they are driven to extinction!

After surviving 20m years, China's goddess of the river are driven to extinction!!

For 20 million years, the white-fin dolphin, or baiji, swam China's longest river, the Yangtze.

A recent expedition failed to spot a single Lipotes vexillifer, and now conservationists fear the almost-blind, long-beaked animal is gone for good, the first big aquatic mammal to become extinct due to human activity. When it was listed as one of the most endangered species in the world in 1986, there were still 400 white-fin dolphins alive, but the population dropped alarmingly to fewer than 150 over the past decade. A survey in 1997 listed just 13 sightings, with the last confirmed sighting in 2004. The final baiji in captivity, Qi Qi, died in 2002.