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

The world's smallest marine mammal, the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, has dwindled to a population of only 10, making sightings of the animals extremely rare. A new study sheds light on the ...

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 ...

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Living up to their names, killer whales have been killing other marine mammals but not eating them for decades, and scientists aren't sure exactly why. Orcas seemingly hunt down, harass, and often ...

NANJING, China (Reuters) - On a short stretch of the Yangtze river, three sleek grey porpoises twist in muddy waters near the city of Nanjing, protected from passing barges and ships by a row of ...

A harbor porpoise swims in Alaska waters on July 7, 2016. DNA analysis and other information shows that Southeast Alaska’s porpoises have separate populations, and the more southern population appears ...

Napans strolling along the river Sunday may have caught a rare sight — a harbor porpoise surfacing in the Oxbow. By Monday, the animal was still cruising the same stretch of water.[ related_articles ...

A Yangtze finless porpoise hunting in China’s Poyang Lake. “Our work fills the gap between the super long-term information we get from fossils and DNA and the recent population surveys. It really ...

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