With fewer than 10 individuals left alive and captive breeding off the table, the vaquita has almost no margin for error. A ...

But now, anyone with the right tools can study, or even 3D print, a scientifically accurate and detailed vaquita skeleton.

Scientists have digitally preserved the world’s most endangered marine mammal by creating highly detailed 3D models of a ...

Sometimes a piece of news can be both good and so, so depressing. Take this week’s story out of Florida, for example, which ...

The reconstruction of the vaquita, whose numbers barely reach double figures in the wild, is designed to help research and conservation efforts ...

The vaquita almost doesn't look real. Only about 5 feet long, these tiny porpoises are silvery gray, and have dark rings around their eyes and dark patches across their lips, making them look more ...

There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 are threatened with extinction. On that list are 17,903 marine species that ...

The vaquita — a tiny, rare porpoise who lives in the Sea of Cortez in the Upper Gulf of California, near Mexico — is the most endangered cetacean in the world. Last year, experts determined there were ...

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 to its ...

Research published in the academic journal Mammal Review has uncovered the missing link in the depleting population of the vaquita. With a body less than 1.5 m long, the vaquita is the smallest living ...

The vaquita porpoise, one of the world's most endangered animals, could become extinct within a year if fishing nets continue being used illegally, a university in Scotland warned on Wednesday.

The vaquita, a tiny marine mammal found in the Gulf of California, is almost extinct. Scientists estimate that there are only about ten left. For International Save the Vaquita Day, we spoke to ...