But in early 2020, a study concluded that the species has recently gone extinct, mainly because of overfishing and dam construction. The Chinese paddlefish was one of only two paddlefish species ...

The Alagoas foliage-gleaner was declared extinct in 2019. The Chinese paddlefish was among the largest freshwater species of its kind in the world before disappearing in the early 2000s.

and there are fears that wild Chinese sturgeon may soon go extinct like their Chinese paddlefish relatives. The adults are predators that consume any aquatic animal that can be swallowed ...