Fernando Trujillo named the 2024 Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year to honour his decades of conservation work ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than a hundred dolphins have been found dead in a tributary of Amazon river in Brazil this past week. Experts suspect the deaths may have been caused by severe drought and rising heat.

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, ...

Alamy Back on the early morning trip on the Paraná do Ramos with Bialek steering our Zodiac, it doesn’t take long for us to meet those pink dolphins. The Amazon river dolphin (or boto), an ...

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 ...