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The Latest Breaking News from the Gulf of California

'It was unlike anything I'd witnessed before': Orcas seen headbutting a sunfish so hard that it exploded

In two encounters in the Gulf of California, one orca held a dead sunfish in place while another rammed it at high speed, breaking the carcass into what appear to be bite-sized pieces for younger whales.

LiveScience

5 Animals That May Disappear Sooner Than You Think

Some species are disappearing so silently that the world barely notices. No breaking news. No sudden alarms. Just shrinking forests, polluted rivers, warming oceans, and animal populations falling year after year. Some creatures now survive in such tiny numbers that scientists struggle to even find them in the wild. And…

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Orcas in the Gulf of California paralyze young great white sharks before ripping out their livers

An orca pod that made headlines last year for gutting a whale shark has struck again, this time perfecting a technique that involves paralyzing young great white sharks to eat their livers.

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Once-Dying Mexican River Delta Slowly Nursed Back To Life

It is the fruit of two decades of work by environmentalists along the lower part of the river from the US-Mexican border to the upper estuary of the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez.

Latin Times

Orcas are eating sharks in the Gulf of California — and it may be happening more than we think, experts say

Records of orcas hunting sharks in the Gulf of California are on the rise, as experts say we may have underestimated how much this happens.

LiveScience

Rare video shows elusive deep-sea squid cradling her gigantic, translucent eggs

While navigating a remotely operated vehicle in the Gulf of California, scientists spotted a brooding squid cradling translucent eggs.

LiveScience

Extinction alert issued over critically endangered vaquita

World’s tiniest marine mammal – found only in the Gulf of California in Mexico – has only 10 individuals left, study finds

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Against all odds, Mexico's endangered vaquita porpoise holds on

Against all odds, the remaining handful of Mexico’s endangered vaquita porpoises are holding on in their only habitat in the Gulf of California

The Independent UK

This summer, head to La Paz, Mexico's unsung seaside destination

Most travelers likely have heard of Los Cabos, a celebrated Mexican tourist spot that sits on the southern tip of Baja California, the linear peninsula that’s bounded by the Pacific Ocean on one side and the Sea of Cortez (a.k.a. the Gulf of California) on the other.

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