SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 The world’s smallest and most endangered marine mammal may have a fighting chance at survival after scientists documented a mother vaquita swimming with her calf during the 2025 annual survey in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez.<\/p>\n
The vaquita, an elusive porpoise with distinctive black rings around its eyes and lips, is found only in the upper Gulf of California. This unique species with a rounded head and short beak has adapted to the warm waters off San Felipe, Mexico, thousands of miles from its nearest relative in Peru.<\/p>\n
In “Edge of Extinction: The Last Vaquita,” ABC 10News anchor Kimberly Hunt travels to Mexico and spends time with researchers aboard the Sea Shepherd vessel as they fight to save the world’s smallest porpoise.<\/p>\n
Watch the full special in the video player at the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2014 The world’s smallest and most endangered marine mammal may have a fighting chance at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[153868,153869,153870,143964,20822,56652,19939,153871,153872,153873,79,201],"class_list":["post-294287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-conservation-society","tag-endangered-marine-mammals","tag-gillnet-fishing","tag-gulf-of-california","tag-illegal-fishing","tag-marine-biology","tag-marine-conservation","tag-mexican-navy","tag-mexico-wildlife","tag-porpoise","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}