This October, an international team of scientists set out to save the vaquita, the most endangered whale in the world. Recent estimates suggest that as few as 30 individuals remain in the Gulf of ...
The vaquita porpoise, the world’s smallest marine mammal, is on the brink of extinction, with 10 or fewer still living in Mexico’s Gulf of California, their sole habitat. But a genetic analysis by a ...
The vaquita marina, Spanish for "little sea cow," is considered the world's most endangered marine mammal. The gray porpoise – known for its small size and characteristic black markings around its ...
A scanned image of the skeleton of the world’s most endangered marine animal, the vaquita, is now available on MorphoSource, a publicly accessible data archive. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Crespo) The ...
The world's smallest marine mammal -- the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, which lives only in Mexico's Sea of Cortez -- is believed to have only 10 living members, if that, of the species. The ...