Yangtze River paddlefish declared extinct

Gone: The paddlefish, now extinct after 15 million years, on a stamp. — China Daily/ANN

BEIJING: 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.

The paper published on Dec 23 on the online edition of the international journal Science of The Total Environment shows that the largest freshwater fish in China might have gone extinct between 2005 and 2010.