Scientists Discover 16-Million-Year-Old Freshwater Dolphin Fossil in the Amazon Scientists have unearthed a fossil of a freshwater dolphin in the Peruvian Amazon, estimated to be 16 million years old.

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

There's mercury in the Amazon. This scientist is tracking it down. There's mercury in the Amazon. This scientist is tracking it down. Spotting wildlife on a cruise through the Peruvian Amazon ...

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 ...

The river has flooded the rain forest, luring freshwater dolphins to hunt in the woods. The Amazon dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, parted company with its oceanic ancestors about 15 million years ago ...

The organization also moved an Amazon dolphin with a pinkish belly the Tucuxi to its endangered list, meaning that all of the world's freshwater dolphins are now threatened A shark only just ...

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 ...

The rare thing is to see dolphins in fresh water, that is, in rivers ... I remind them that humans arrived in the Amazon 'barely' 15,000 years ago, while they — the cetaceans — have much ...

In June 2010, the scientific team of the Omacha Foundation set sail from Puerto Leguízamo to evaluate how healthy the dolphins and their habitats are in the three-border area along the Putumayo river, ...

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 ...