According to a release from SeaWorld San Diego Tuesday, the vaquita — which means “little cow” in Spanish — is the world’s smallest porpoise and most endangered marine mammal.
Full skeleton of a very rare vaquita specimen from the 1960s. The completed scans, which required approximately 165 hours, resulted in a total of three terabytes of data.
Cutting-edge technology in a lab at Florida Atlantic University was used to digitize the skeleton of the rarest marine mammal in the world, a porpoise called the vaquita, ensuring that the animal ...
FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered porpoise. The vaquita, meaning ...
Vaquita (Phocoena sinus). Please credit Paula Olson / NOAA. Image is available for media use. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 ...
Manu Vaquita, alleged operator of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), consolidated himself as one of the most prominent business figures in networks. In her profile you can find images ...
Vaquita (Phocoena sinus). Please credit Paula Olson / NOAA. Image is available for media use. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 ...
Front and center on all of them is the tiny, critically endangered porpoise known as the vaquita. Identified only 50 years ago, the vaquita is endemic to Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California. Reaching a ...
The vaquita, found only in the Gulf of California, is an endangered species. (File pic) A rare porpoise has died in Mexico after being captured as part of a rescue effort for the species.
The 3D scans of this vaquita skeleton will be hosted on MorphoSource, a publicly accessible data repository dedicated to housing image data that represents physical objects of our world.