This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The spectacled porpoise is a small to medium sized, very understudied porpoise species indigenous to the temperate, sub-Antarctic, and Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. The reason they are so poorly studied is due to their locale. These porpoises face the threats of overfishing, bycatch, and accidental capture. The IUCN […]

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