Put together, Phocoena sinus is the “porpoise of the Gulf of California.” The species is also known as the cochito, yet this common name is used to describe several marine animals in the geographic ...

Catching them requires using illegal gillnets that often pull up the endemic vaquita (Phocoena sinus), whose population numbers have dwindled to just 10 individuals, according to the report.

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 ...

Vaquita (Phocoena sinus). Please credit Paula Olson / NOAA. Image is available for media use. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 ...

You may have heard that the Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is the rarest animal in the world, but clearly that isn’t the case. This doesn’t change the fact that they’re one of the most endangered ...