Swimming off the coast of Mexico in the Gulf of California live the few remaining vaquitas on earth. This endangered cetacean ...

Cutting-edge technology in a lab at Florida Atlantic University was used to digitize the skeleton of the rarest marine mammal in the world, a porpoise called the vaquita, ensuring that the animal ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

(Photo courtesy of Jennifer Crespo) The vaquita, which means “little cow” in Spanish, is the world’s smallest porpoise and lives within 1,500 square miles of the northern Gulf of California.

Like Loch Ness in Scotland, the Shannon Estuary in Ireland has long been home to a fabled sea monster ... said to make “a blowing sound, like a porpoise makes when it surfaces for air.” ...

The launches of space rockets from the North Sea planned by the German Offshore ... This sandbank is an important breeding ground for harbor porpoises, according to the Federal Ministry for ...

The group sent a team out to the sea last Friday to reach the sunken ... common bottlenose dolphins and harbor porpoises were swimming in oil film and small fractions of fuel oil, to our great ...

SeaWorld San Diego and the San Diego Natural History Museum have collaborated with Florida Atlantic University researchers to scan the skeleton of the world’s most endangered marine animal, the ...