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Over four years, a team from Canada’s CetAsia Research Group traveled to the Amazon river, where they then closely watched river dolphin social interactions. Researchers documented a total of 36 ...
Researchers observed an unusual behavior among male Amazon ... to serve a social or communicative purpose among these aquatic mammals. The research team from the CetAsia group documented this ...
Scientists Wednesday announced the discovery of the 16-million-year-old remains of the largest river dolphin ... Amazon basin, according to the study. The new dolphin species belongs to the group ...
Some also live in rivers, including the Amazon River in South America ... which grows to only 4.8 feet (1.5 m) long. Dolphins live and hunt in large social groups called pods, and they communicate ...
and the Amazon river dolphin (Inia genus), also known as the pink river dolphin, and the two groups include several species and subspecies. China’s Yangtze river dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer ...
Iranduba, Brazil: Floating in the Rio Negro river in the Brazilian Amazon ... The pink river dolphins -- known as boto -- approach the group out of curiosity, swimming between their legs and ...
March 20 (UPI) --An international team of researchers found the remains of a giant freshwater dolphin ... a mythical group of aquatic people thought by some to have inhabited the Amazon basin ...
Into this seasonal sea, which remains for half the year, swims the Amazon river dolphin, or boto. Botos have the characteristic dolphin smile and, unlike their marine cousins, bulbous foreheads ...
Paleontologists from the University of Zurich have announced the discovery of a new species of freshwater dolphin in the Peruvian Amazon region ... different cetacean groups that once inhabited ...
Measuring between 3 to 3.5 meters, 16 million years old: Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new species of freshwater dolphin in the Peruvian Amazon region. Surprisingly ...