Record-high water temperatures and a historic drought are likely to blame for the recent deaths of more than 100 endangered dolphins in the Brazilian Amazon. By late September 2023, the carcasses of ...

Monitoring echolocation clicks could be used to track the movements of two endangered freshwater dolphin species that inhabit inaccessible parts of the Amazon Basin — the boto (or pink river dolphin) ...

Dolphins are not only some of the most gracious and charismatic animals on Earth, but are rapidly becoming effective conservation messengers. The Amazon is home to three species of dolphins: the pink ...

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In early October 2023, it was reported that more than 120 pink river dolphins had been found dead in Lake Tefé, which is connected to the Amazon River. Local scientists hypothesize that the deaths ...

Amazon river dolphins are under threat from fishing and proposed new dams and dredging, research shows. Scientists used satellite tags to track eight dolphins in the Peruvian Amazon, to discover where ...

Around 16 million years ago, a dolphin giant cruised the depths of its watery domain. But unlike most modern dolphins, its home wasn't an ocean; it lived in a freshwater lake in the Peruvian Amazon.