You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The ...

Into this seasonal sea, which remains for half the year, swims the Amazon river dolphin, or boto. Botos have the characteristic dolphin smile and, unlike their marine cousins, bulbous foreheads ...

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as ... social bonding is not uncommon among animals, it is unusual for aquatic mammals.

She has covered weird animal behavior ... Stock image of two Amazon river dolphins with their mouths open. A woman from the U.K. was bitten by a river dolphin, resulting in a deep wound on ...

But the Amazon river dolphin — endangered animals known for their unusual color — had always stood out as one of the river’s most resilient species. Now at least 125 were dead.

Dolphins live in all the world’s oceans and even some of the largest freshwater rivers. Like whales, they’re considered ...

The animal was held still and constantly hydrated ... Banner image: Researchers examine an Amazon river dolphin in the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve. Image by Adriano Gambarini.

Fishermen were careful not to injure an adult female dolphin during capture and kept her close to her young offspring to avoid stressing the animals. "She relaxed and we could do all the tests.

The Amazon Basin contains the world's largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the ...

Our world is full of surprises and some such surprises come in the form of pink dolphin, white giraffe and black tiger, among ...