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 ...

There are only 10 or less of this little porpoise species left in the world. What can be done to save the vaquita?

It wouldn't be a surprise if you've never heard of the vaquita. The porpoise was not studied until the mid-20th century and is known for being shy. Vaquitas are the world's smallest cetaceans ...

Recognizing the threat to the vaquita, totoaba, and other Upper Gulf species ... Despite the decades of lawlessness and Mexico’s enforcement failures, this tiny porpoise persists. Such perseverance ...

That mammal is the vaquita, a small porpoise that may look similar to a dolphin but is much less common in the wild. The vaquita is a teeny porpoise species found in the upper Gulf of California ...

FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita ...

Scientists recently announced that as few as 10 vaquita porpoises are estimated to survive in the world ― a direct result of rampant and uncontrolled illegal fishing for totoaba, which is poached for ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shortly after scientists discovered the species in 1950, they realized it was in trouble. Vaquitas were regularly ...

MONTREAL— After a two-year delay, the Council of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement finally voted today to investigate Mexico’s failure to protect its critically endangered and endemic vaquita ...

(Photo courtesy of Jennifer Crespo) The vaquita, which means “little cow” in Spanish, is the world’s smallest porpoise and lives within 1,500 square miles of the northern Gulf of California.

Although the vaquita has never been held successfully in captivity, experts hope to put the remaining porpoises in floating pens in a safe bay in the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of ...