Scientists have discovered the biggest underbite ever found in a mammal. It belongs to an extinct porpoise that lived on the California coast 5 million years ago. That crazy long underbite you see in ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of the ...

A white-gray finless porpoise was found stranded on the mudflat of the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang Province, on Tuesday, which was then transported to a local park for ...

Around the world, fishermen use low-cost nets that sit like fences on coastal seafloors. Known as set gill nets, this type of gear is highly effective at catching fish when the mesh snags them by ...

Warning: This story contains details and images of animal cruelty The body of a porpoise was discovered with its head cut off on a Welsh beach. The small dolphin-like animal was found on Aberffraw ...

CAPE PORPOISE, Maine — The sun rises and sets each day, and the four seasons unfold throughout the year, yet there is a fleeting nature to these moments. If you miss them – if you sleep in, spend ...

Recent drone footage of a young Yangtze River finless porpoise chasing a knife fish was captured by a volunteer for porpoise conservation in East China' Jiangsu Province. The video clip shows a ...

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 ...

With an estimated less than 10 individuals alive, the vaquita porpoise of the Gulf of California is on the brink of ...

One of the world's most endangered marine mammals could face extinction as soon as this year if an illegal fishing operation continues to tangle and kill the porpoises as bycatch. The vaquita, a ...