The river's width varies from 1 to 6.2 miles during the dry season, but expands to over 30 miles wide in some parts during the rainy season ...

Sea Shepherd is launching a new conservation research campaign in Brazil to protect the dolphins of the Amazon River. The scientific expedition, known as Boto Da Amazônia (Amazon River Dolphin ...

This year, the drought in Amazon rivers is already worse than in 2023, when 209 pink and grey river dolphins were found dead in Lake Tefé, in Amazonas state, largely due to overheating of the waters.

Major rivers throughout the Amazon Basin have plummeted to record low levels, and water temperatures are approaching those ...

Scientists have discovered the 16-million-year-old remains of the “largest river dolphin ever found” after unearthing a huge ...

The Amazon river dolphins — some pink in color — are a unique freshwater species found only in the rivers of South America. A slow reproductive cycle makes their populations especially prone ...

A shark only just formally discovered might already be extinct - a fate no shark has yet suffered in the human era - while an Amazon river dolphin has become endangered, a Red List of species in ...

Trujillo has dedicated his work to protecting the freshwater dolphins of the Amazon River. He has been studying these dolphins for over 30 years, tracking their migratory patterns and assessing ...