New research shows that Amazon River dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) are facing significant risks due to fishing, dams and dredging practices. Using satellites, cetacean experts were able to track ...

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River. In the video, the dolphin ...

It doesn't help their fortunes that the Indus River dolphin is not cute. They don't leap out of ... They aren't even pink, like Amazon river dolphins. The Indus River dolphin is drab.

In a grim fallout from the longest drought in the Amazon rainforest's recorded history last year, induced in part by climate change, the carcasses of more than 200 river dolphins were found ...

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Low river levels during the drought heated the water to temperatures that were intolerable for the dolphins, researchers say. Thousands of fish also died on Amazon rivers due to a lack of oxygen ...