For years, scientists feared the vaquita porpoise would quietly vanish from the planet — another species lost before most ...

The vaquita may be the world’s rarest — and most endangered — animal. The vaquita is a small porpoise that mainly inhabits the northern region of the Gulf of California in Mexico. Researchers estimate ...

Although she had all the permits and the paperwork, researcher Jamie Knaub still felt nervous as her durable yellow suitcase ventured into the TSA scanner. Knaub was the guardian of over 260 bones ...

Six vaquitas are reported to have died in fishing nets over the past six months, further threatening the survival of the world's smallest and most critically endangered porpoise. Gulf of California, ...

The world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita porpoise, is still hanging on in the waters off Mexico’s northwest coast — and, against all odds, it’s reproducing. (AP video shot by: Félix ...

In May, two research vessels embarked on a survey in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California, searching for evidence of the world’s rarest marine mammal, the tiny vaquita porpoise. Scientists conducted ...