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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The vaquita, the world’s smallest porpoise, was discovered in 1958, but since then has been rapidly driven towards extinction due to the use of gillnets.

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 ...