Many Amazon river dolphins are known to interact with people, but only Mocajuba dolphins are known to play with people ...

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.

If you ask anyone what a dolphin eats, you’ll probably get the same answer: fish! After all, fish are abundant in all the different waters where dolphins live. However, dolphins are opportunistic ...

The Amazon Basin is home to two unique species of freshwater dolphins, the Amazon river dolphin, also known as the boto or pink river dolphin, and the tucuxi, a smaller, gray-bodied species.

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.

Also called the boto, the Amazon river dolphin sometimes comes in pink—at least the males do. Their pink skin is a result of scarring.

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 ...

There’s the South Asian river dolphin (Platanista genus) and the Amazon river dolphin (Inia genus), also known as the pink river dolphin, and the two groups include several species and subspecies.

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 ...

Over 100 dolphins cooked in the Amazon river as climate change heats water to Jacuzzi temperatures The dolphins may have lost 10 percent of their population, which could threaten the survival of ...

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon amid an historic drought and record-high water temperatures that in places have exceeded 102 degrees Fahrenheit.