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Today is International #SaveTheVaquita Day! 🎉
With fewer than 20 left, the Vaquita is the world's most endangered marine mammal. I painted this piece in the hope of raising awareness for vaquita.day.
#Cetacean #Whales #Porpoise #Endangeredspecies #Conservation #Animalart #Sciart #NatureArt
A static net was equipped with passive acoustic monitors to study how harbor porpoises interact with the nets. The monitors recorded a pair of porpoises feeding nearby, and the entanglement and death of one of them. The survivor stayed in the vicinity for an hour and called and called and called.
Original paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article/13/8/rsos260565/483031/First-detailed-insights-into-harbour-porpoise
Porpoise entanglement recorded in real time, revealing calls and escape attempts https://phys.org/news/2026-08-porpoise-entanglement-real-revealing.html 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Porpoise #Science #Bycatch
I followed this story for 11 years before getting to write an article about it.
Marine Biologists Solved a Wildlife Mystery From the Walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge: How the Harbor Porpoise Mates https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/marine-biologists-solved-a-wildlife-mystery-from-the-walkway-of-the-golden-gate-bridge-how-the-harbor-porpoise-mates-180989163/ 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Porpoise #Science
UNESCO gives Mexico 6 months to show 'concrete actions' to protect remaining vaquitas https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/unesco-gives-mexico-6-months-remaining-vaquitas/ 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Porpoise #Vaquita #Bycatch #Extinction #Science
Made the decision to do two more Scottish Mammals. Here's a WIP of the first one, a Harbour Porpoise.
#porpoise #cetacean #art #vector #illustration #graphicdesign #scotland #fediart #WIP
Pixels preserve world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1132021 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Porpoise #Science #Vaquita #Extinction #Bycatch
What’s Black and White and Reveals Historic Porpoise Distributions? https://nautil.us/whats-black-and-white-and-reveals-historic-porpoise-distributions-1280867 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Porpoise #Science
⟦Knaub et al.⟧ Preserving an Imperiled Porpoise Through Pixels: Digitization of a Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) Skeleton, the World's Most Endangered Marine Mammal https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.70162?af=R 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Porpoise #Science
⟦Heße et al.⟧ Rising competition among North Sea mammalian top predators: a multi-method perspective on trophic ecology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-53094-2 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Porpoise #Science #Pinipeds #Seals
Flying Dorky Cloud Porpoise is my new favourite cryptid.
China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/12/china-yangtze-river-recovery-after-fishing-ban 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Porpoise #Science #ConservationSuccess
Scientists spot vaquita calves in Mexico, fuelling hope for the world’s rarest marine mammal https://apnews.com/video/scientists-spot-vaquita-calves-in-mexico-fueling-hope-for-the-worlds-rarest-marine-mammal-f1928d6587784b019aa089fa9668766f 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Vaquita #Porpoise #Science #Bycatch #Extinction
10-million-year-old dolphin-like fossil found in Peru https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/c7v1rygml6eo 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Porpoise #FossilFriday
'Interesting' #DailyPictureTheme
What's beauty?
What's interesting?
It's all in the eye of the beholder.
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#vss365 #sapphire
#WordedArt #string
#BlueSkyRelay #porpoise
#DailyHaikuPrompt roses
#WritingCommunity #poetry #haiku
#KBFPhotography #MobilePhonePhotography #Photography
@dailyhaikuprompt
@vss365 @writingcommunity @poetry @haiku @photography
Ancient #Poems Record the Decline of a Special Porpoise
The #Yangtze finless #porpoise is near #extinction in the wild, but glimpses of its heyday can be found in centuries of Chinese #poetry.
https://www.404media.co/ancient-poems-record-the-decline-of-a-special-porpoise/
https://archive.ph/0itPS
Decapitated dolphin found in North Carolina.
Police to question RFKJr.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/decapitated-dolphin-north-carolina
#Dolphin #Porpoise#RFKJr
.[van Geel et al.] Suitability of assessing population-level impacts from construction of a single wind farm – a case study on North Sea harbour porpoises https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2025.1539143/full 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineLife #MarineBiology #Porpoise #Renewables #RenewableEnergy
"Range contraction of the Yangtze finless porpoise inferred from classic Chinese poems", Zhang et al. 2025
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00266-0
"we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years."
Intelligent Life: The Proof
There may be hope for it after all.
rustyring.blogspot.com/2011/09/inte...
#beach, #porpoise, #skull, #wildlife
Intelligent Life: The Proof
Intelligent Life: The Proof
There may be hope for it after all.
http://rustyring.blogspot.com/2011/09/intelligent-life-proof.html
Not a whale, but want to use World Whale Day as an opportunity to raise awareness of the vaquita porpoise. These critically endangered beauties need our help! Humans are driving their extinction!
#vaquita #porpoise #ocean #nature #cetaceans
That look - you can see his eyes and his grin through the water splashes!