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Sea of Shadows is a 2019 documentary about environmental activists (Sea Shepherd), the Mexican Navy, marine scientists and undercover investigators trying to prevent the extinction of the vaquita, a species of porpoise and the smallest whale in the world, by pulling gillnets, doing research, and fighting back Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia who are destroying ocean habitats in their brutal ...
The vaquita (/ v ə ˈ k iː t ə / və-KEE-tə; Phocoena sinus) is a species of porpoise endemic to the northern end of the Gulf of California in Baja California, Mexico.Reaching a maximum body length of 150 cm (4.9 ft) (females) or 140 cm (4.6 ft) (males), it is the smallest of all living cetaceans.
The Japanese sea lion and Caribbean monk seal disappeared in the 1950s, the most recent aquatic mammals to become extinct. Several land-based mammal species and subspecies have disappeared since then. If the baiji is extinct, the vaquita (Phocoena sinus) has become the most endangered marine mammal species. Some scientists retain hope for the ...
The number of Mexico’s critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises sighted in the Gulf of California fell to between 6 and 8 this year, researchers said Tuesday. Last year, experts on a ...
The ivory-billed woodpecker - not officially seen since 1944… and known to bird watchers as the "Lord God Bird" - is one of 23 species that will soon be declared extinct by the U.S. Fish and ...
“It’s going to be one more year of pain, but by the end of the year, some of these people that said they’re going to be locked in forever that want to leave…they’ll move,” he said. ...
Extinct is a 2021 animated science fiction comedy film directed by David Silverman, and co-directed by Raymond S. Persi, from a screenplay by Joel Cohen, John Frink, and Rob LaZebnik. [6] The film features the voices of Rachel Bloom , Adam Devine , Zazie Beetz , Ken Jeong , Catherine O'Hara , Benedict Wong , Reggie Watts , and Jim Jefferies .
The BBC notes, "of the 41 communities researchers studied, arapaima populations were extinct in eight of them." And the giant fish, which typically weighs in at more than 400 pounds, is rapidly ...