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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — The International Whaling Commission released its first-ever extinction alert Monday to warn of the potential danger facing the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. Known to be the smallest ...