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 ...

The world’s smallest, most-endangered porpoise finds itself tangled in gillnets and black-market Chinese medicine, but the Mexican Navy and the U.S. Navy’s trained dolphins are trying to come ...

Recent monitoring in Mexico’s Gulf of California has detected the presence of vaquita on 41 occasions, suggesting that ...

SAN FELIPE, Baja Mexico (CBS News 8) -- One of the last remaining vaquita porpoise has died just hours after being captured by scientists off San Felipe in Baja, Mexico. The endangered marine mamm ...

MEXICO CITY — Against all odds, Mexico’s remaining endangered vaquita porpoises are holding on in their only habitat, the Gulf of California, according to a new research expedition report ...

An attempt to rescue a vaquita porpoise, one of the most endangered animals in the world, failed when the animal, which had been placed in protected captivity on Saturday, died. Only an estimated ...

Mexico may reduce protection for the world's most endangered marine mammals, vaquita marina porpoises 07:18 A species at risk . Last year's report had raised hopes for the species, which lives ...

Sea Shepherd’s Conservation Society vessel, Sirena de la Noche, takes part in the census mission as part of the efforts to save the endangered vaquita porpoise near San Felipe, in the Gulf of ...

LOS ANGELES -- The vaquita porpoise lives only in the Northern Gulf of California. They are shy animals that only hang out in small groups and because of that not many people have seen them ...