The San Diego Natural History Museum and SeaWorld San Diego have partnered with researchers at the Florida Atlantic ...

The vaquita, which means "little cow" in Spanish, is the world's smallest porpoise and most endangered marine mammal. They ...

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The vaquita porpoise is teetering on the brink of extinction, but scientists say DNA tests show the population is still genetically viable. The tiny silvery porpoise lives only in Mexico's Gulf of ...

Mexico's government says it plans to use dolphins trained by the US Navy to try to save the world's most endangered marine species, the vaquita porpoise. Environment Minister Rafael Pacchiano said ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two years ago, scientists estimated that only 100 vaquita porpoises remained in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California. In April 2015, as vaquitas continued to die due to entanglement in fishing gear, the ...

Species like the El Rincon stream frogs, Dinagat moonrat, northern river terrapins, hirola antelope, Bawean warty pigs, vaquita porpoises, and golden langurs face critical endangerment due to ...

The Mexican government has completed the objectives of a 2023 action plan created to help protected the critically endangered ...