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 Márq ...

Each May since 2015, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has undertaken a difficult mission. For three weeks, they search the oceans for the world’s rarest cetaceans, the vaquita porpoise. The ...

Mexican authorities and conservationists have reported sightings of healthy vaquita marina porpoises and a significant drop in illegal fishing activity, signaling progress in efforts to save the ...

In Mexico’s Gulf of California, fewer than 20 vaquitas remain — a living ghost on the edge of extinction. Marine biologist ...

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. Vaquita ...

The world's smallest marine mammal is so critically endangered that there are only about 10 remaining in its sole habitat of Mexico's Gulf of California. But that may not yet spell doom for the ...

For the first time in its 70-year history, the International Whaling Commission has issued an "extinction alert." Known as the world’s tiniest porpoise, the vaquita is facing the potential danger of ...

The 88-nation International Whaling Commission on Monday issued its first extinction for the vaquita porpoise, a species native to the northern Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico. With a ...