The Amazon Basin is home to two unique species of freshwater dolphins, the Amazon river dolphin, also known as the boto or ...

Those lucky enough to visit the Amazon River may think their eyes are playing tricks on them when they spot a boto (AKA: a ...

But this is no work of fiction; it’s the real-life quest of scientists, conservationists, and local heroes under the Rolex ...

There's mercury in the Amazon. This scientist is tracking it down. There's mercury in the Amazon. This scientist is tracking it down. Spotting wildlife on a cruise through the Peruvian Amazon ...

A 400-pound river dolphin, for instance, was probably fishing for food in a parched part of the Colombian Amazon known as Monkey Island when water levels dropped. The dolphin found itself trapped ...

In June 2024, satellite images taken of the mighty Amazon River and its tributaries captured ... In another, a dead dolphin lies on the sand; in 2023, this was the fate of more than 200 dolphins.

Ivan Sgualdini/Shutterstock.com Pink river dolphins, also called the Amazon river dolphin, are one of the most unique underwater mammals. They live in South America and they’re actually a ...

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 ...

The end of a local fishing ban in Brazil may signal good news for fishermen — but researchers are afraid it will spell disaster for a rare species of dolphin. The Amazon river dolphin ...