Over four years, a team from Canada’s CetAsia Research Group traveled to the Amazon river, where they then closely watched ...

Male dolphins have been observed shooting jets of urine into the air and other dolphins seem to follow the stream, perhaps to ...

Scientists Wednesday announced the discovery of the 16-million-year-old remains of the largest river dolphin ever found on Earth. A skull of the long-extinct creature was uncovered in the Amazon ...

There’s the South Asian river dolphin (Platanista genus) and the Amazon river dolphin (Inia genus), also known as the pink river dolphin, and the two groups include several species and subspecies.

The river has flooded the rain forest, luring freshwater dolphins to hunt in the woods. The Amazon dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, parted company with its oceanic ancestors about 15 million years ago ...

An Amazon river dolphin takes a catfish from a fisher’s net. The dolphins have learnt to associate the sounds of fishing boats and nets with an easy meal. Some, however, get entangled and drown. Many ...

Thomas Peschak (Germany/South Africa) documents the relationship between endangered Amazon river dolphins – also known as botos, or pink river dolphins – and the people who share their watery home.

WWF has been working on bufeo conservation since 2006 as part of a South American initiative to estimate river dolphin populations in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. During that process, threats to the ...

Hiding in a narrow branch of a river deep within the Amazon rain forest is a strange animal that one wouldnt expect to find here thousands of kilometers away from the ocean the Pink River Dolphin ...

“This historic declaration creates a road map for the recovery of river dolphin populations across ... species still live in rivers such as the Amazon and the Orinoco in South America or the ...