Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho was in mourning. Beyond the windows of his hillside house in Ensenada, Mexico, the sun glinted brilliantly off the waters of the Pacific, but he'd drawn the curtains closed. In ...
Fishermen typically come across some interesting things every so often while realing in their catch. On the other hand, this finding in the Netherlands just might take the cake. Published in the ...
According to The Friday Times, WWF-Pakistan has called gillnets a "silent but lethal threat" to marine life and biodiversity.
LOS ANGELES -- The vaquita porpoise lives only in the Northern Gulf of California. They are shy animals that only hang out in small groups and because of that not many people have seen them. Vaquita ...
The porpoise has lost 90 percent of its population over the past five years Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on ...
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If you liked this story, share it with other people. “The [Yangtze finless porpoise ] is moving fast toward its extinction,” said Wang Ding, head of the research expedition, with the Institute of ...
Ultimately, scientists say an acute understanding of harbor porpoises and identifying key components of social hotspots like San Francisco Bay may also help foster marine conservation areas — and ...
The porpoises were male babies, their age clear by their not-yet-firm dorsal fin, small hairs on their upper jaws and an open umbilicus from where they had been attached to their mother. Their ...
A porpoise has died after a group of beachgoers in Germany allegedly caught it and invited a group of almost two dozen children to hug and pet it, according to officials. Witnesses told a marine ...
Kylie is a solo dolphin who lives in the Firth of Clyde, the mouth of the River Clyde in Scotland, and spends her days swimming around navigational buoys in the Atlantic channel. It is also here that ...