The vaquita, the world's smallest and rarest cetacean, is a porpoise species found only in the northern Gulf of California ...

Though the vaquita may have formerly occurred throughout the Gulf of California, the species today has the most limited distribution of any cetacean and is restricted to the northwestern corner of the ...

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 ...

Such threats include bycatch (accidental capture in fishing gear), chemical and noise pollution, ship strikes, habitat destruction, over-fishing of prey species, and climate change—which can impact ...

Since then, experts have documented 17,500 cetacean strandings. To date 28 different species of cetaceans have been recorded around the British Isles, representing almost a third of the total 90 ...

Image by Far Out Ocean Research Collective. A pod of false killer whales off the coast of New Zealand. False killer whales are a fascinating species that we still have much to learn about.