and now research has revealed that Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) are peeing straight up into the air, possibly for a curious reason. Read the full story here An Inside Look At How ...

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, ...

We have questions. These adult male dolphins pee in the air. We have questions. Read There's mercury in the Amazon. This scientist is tracking it down. Environment Perpetual Planet There's mercury ...

How big they are: From 5 to 32 feet (1.5 to 10 meters) long, depending on the species Dolphins live in almost every ocean, except most tend to avoid the cold waters in the Arctic and around Antarctica ...

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Over 100 Amazon river dolphins died in Brazil's Lake Tefe amid a historic drought. Seventy carcasses were found on a single day when water temperatures soared to ...

And then there’s climate change. In 2023, record-high water temperatures in the Amazon and extreme drought killed more than 300 river dolphins in Brazil. “If the river is gone, the dolphins ...

Amazon river dolphins are showing alarming levels of contamination mainly because of illegal panning for gold, conservationists say. Researchers measured contamination levels in 46 of these large ...

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 ...

Some also live in rivers, including the Amazon River in South America and the Ganges River in India. Dolphins are technically classified as whales, but are different from their larger cousins in ...