The consumer has a large role in what contributes to the extinction of species, Barbara Taylor highlights. She explains what it means to be a conscious consumer and why we need to be careful of the food we eat, where it came from, and how it was caught. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 31333]

Barbara Taylor compares the Vaquita to other species of similar dolphins all around the world and highlights why the near extinct Vaquitas’ story could also become the story for these others if our behavior doesn’t change. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 31332]

Barbara Taylor explains that the reason for Vaquitas’ near extinction is because they share a habitat with the highly sought-after Totoaba, a fish in high demand for their swim bladders. The vaquita get caught in the nets cast to catch these fish and drown in large numbers. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 31329]

With speeds of up to 50 miles per hour and accelerations that are comparable to a .22 caliber bullet, the mantis shrimp strike is considered to be one of the fastest movements ever recorded in the animal kingdom. Join Scripps marine biologist Maya deVries as she describes her research on the biomechanics and ecology of this extremely fast strike and tells us how over 150 million years of evolution has led to the amazing diversity of striking behaviors seen across mantis shrimp. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 30922]

Barbara Taylor shares some rare footage of the Vaquita enjoying their natural habitat and explains why this dolphin in particular is shrouded in so much mystery, and how this weakens its chances of surviving overfishing. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 31327]

Barbara Taylor explains that the reason for Vaquitas’ near extinction is because they share a habitat with the highly sought-after Totoaba, a fish in high demand for their swim bladders. The vaquita get caught in the nets cast to catch these fish and drown in large numbers. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 31329]

Barbara Taylor expands on the gravity of the Vaquitas’ population dip. She discusses that the scientific data she and her team has received from tracking the density of Vaquita communication calls shows the situation is much more severe than they could have predicted. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 31331]

Barbara Taylor shares some rare footage of the Vaquita enjoying their natural habitat and explains why this dolphin in particular is shrouded in so much mystery, and how this weakens its chances of surviving overfishing. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 31327]

Barbara Taylor debunks the idea that Vaquita could be dying naturally and for reasons out of human’s control. She states that the only real and true cause for their extremely rapid decline is overfishing in their habitat. Series: "UCTV Prime" [Science] [Show ID: 31326]

Barbara Taylor of the National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center, who participated in the last effort to save the recently extinct Chinese River Dolphin, or Baiji, gives a detailed chronicle of her involvement in documenting the decline of earth’s most endangered marine mammal, the Vaquita, found only in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Their primary threat is death in gillnets, which until very recently supplied shrimp to the U.S. market. The catastrophic 80% decline since 2011 results from illegal sales of endangered totoaba swim bladders to China. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 30921]