If you ask anyone what a dolphin eats, you’ll probably get the same answer — fish! After all, fish are abundant in all the ...

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 ...

Amazon River Dolphins Are Facing Mass Die-Offs In Brazil. Story by Chris D'Angelo, Jason Gulley • 1mo. T EFÉ, Brazil — Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has ...

The carcasses of at least 125 Amazon river dolphins have been found floating or beached after temperatures in Lake Tefé, Brazil, reached a staggering 39.1 degrees Celsius.

The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat.

(CNN) — Picture a dolphin. Now imagine one that’s twice the size of a person. Around 16 million years ago, a dolphin giant cruised the depths of its watery domain. But unlike most modern ...

Venturing deep into the complex waterways of the Amazon, Colombian marine biologist Fernando Trujillo first set out to study the mysterious pink river dolphin in 1987, at the directive of the late ...

An Amazon river dolphin, also called a boto, pauses for an underwater portrait in Brazil. Photograph by Flip Nicklin, Minden Pictures, Nat Geo Image Collection. Please be respectful of copyright.

After around 219 hours of observations, they can confirm that male Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis), also known as botos, often roll onto their backs and urinate over three feet into the air.

The Amazon river dolphins, many of a striking pink color, are a unique freshwater species found only in the rivers of South America and are one of a handful of freshwater dolphin species left in ...

The weird way dolphins are peeing in the Amazon River is baffling scientists. Mysterious behaviour may be form of communication. Vishwam Sankaran. Thursday 06 February 2025 11:57 GMT.

Bones from an Amazon pink river dolphin are embedded in dried mud along the banks of Lake Tefé in Tefe, Brazil, on Oct. 31, 2023. More than 200 river dolphins died in the 2023 drought that sent ...