In 1975, after the totoaba was declared endangered, Mexico outlawed fishing ... In this fight against extinction, Podolsky sees a cautionary tale about the importance of protecting rare animals ...

The vaquita, which means “little cow” in Spanish, is the world’s smallest porpoise and lives within ... gillnets used to fish totoaba, an endangered species prized for its swim bladder.

LONDON― As governments from around the world prepare to meet in Geneva for the 18th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES ... that as few as ...

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 ...

including the smallest and most endangered porpoise on Earth: the vaquita. Scientists say there are likely only six to eight vaquitas left on Earth. Their extinction is virtually assured without bold, ...

Numerous lists of species that are likely to go extinct within the next few years have been published. Front and center on all of them is the tiny, critically endangered porpoise known as the vaquita.

There are many endangered species, but none has pulled our heartstrings quite like the Yangtze River finless porpoise. This critically endangered freshwater porpoise belongs to the Neophocaena ...

Braving the cold winds, the experts patrolled the river aboard boats, carefully scanning the surface in hopes of spotting this endangered species. During the hour-long patrol, the team caught a ...

Mexican naval vessels, spotter planes and conservationists are patrolling the upper Gulf of California in a race against time to save the world's rarest marine mammal from extinction. Mexico's ...

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.

(Photo courtesy of Jennifer Crespo) The vaquita, which means “little cow” in Spanish, is the world’s smallest porpoise and ... to fish totoaba, an endangered species prized for its swim ...