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Encounter With World’s Rarest Ocean Mammal Thrills Scientists

Source
National Geographic

Publication Date
2015-10-08

Scientists feared they were on a grim mission. Biologists searching Mexico's Sea of Cortez for the world's most endangered marine mammal—a tiny porpoise called the vaquita—worried they might already be too late.

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151007-endangered-porpoise-vaquita-ocean-fishing-marine-mammal-gillnet-Mexico/