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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 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 ...
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Despite the world's last captive thylacine dying in 1936, the secretive animal wasn't declared extinct until 1986. More recently in 2007 the Baiji dolphin , a rare river dolphin native to China ...
The order Artiodactyla consists of 349 extant species belonging to 132 genera. This does not include hybrid species or extinct prehistoric species. Modern molecular studies indicate that the 132 genera can be grouped into 23 families; these families are grouped into named suborders and many are further grouped into named clades, and some of these families are subdivided into named subfamilies.
Though there was an unconfirmed sighting in the region in August 2003, no permanent volcano rabbit colony has been documented in Nevado de Toluca and it was declared "extinct" within this portion of its range in 2018; [15] populations exist elsewhere within the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and in captivity.
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 ...
Dusicyon avus is an extinct species of cerdocyonine canid in the genus Dusicyon, native to South America during the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. It was medium to large, about the size of a German shepherd. [2] It was closely related to the Falkland Islands wolf or warrah (Dusicyon australis), which descended from a population of D. avus. [3]