Scientists only learned of their existence in 1958 when a few vaquita skulls were found washed ashore. Because of their shy nature, vaquitas are hard for researchers to observe. They tend to swim ...

Mexico's Gulf of California — one of the most biodiverse places on the planet — teems with 891 species of fish and a third of the world's cetacean species, including the smallest and most endangered ...

At least three vaquita were found dead in the spring of 2016 ... in illegal gillnet fishing for critically endangered totoaba, a large schooling marine fish in the drum or croaker family that is also ...

FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita ...

Vaquitas were regularly drowning in gill nets meant for shrimp and totoabas, a fish whose swim bladder is ... s government made part of the gulf a vaquita refuge. But the population kept falling ...

Sean Jansen spent most of his teenage and young adult life driving south across the border to surf along the Baja Peninsula ...

a fish whose swim bladder can go for tens of thousands of dollars per kilo on the international black market. Some environmental groups have focused on patrolling vaquita habitats with ships ...

Mexico's Gulf of California — one of the most biodiverse places on the planet — teems with 891 species of fish and a third of the world's cetacean species, including the smallest and most endangered ...