Dramatic underwater photos capture the elusive Amazonian pink dolphins red-handed.

In early October 2023, it was reported that more than 120 pink river dolphins had been found dead in Lake Tefé, which is connected to the Amazon River. Local scientists hypothesize that the deaths ...

Bones from an Amazon pink river dolphin are embedded in dried mud along the banks of Lake Tefé in Tefe, Brazil, on Oct. 31, 2023. More than 200 river dolphins died in the 2023 drought that sent water ...

The carcasses of around 200 river dolphins were floating across the seven-foot (two-meter) deep waters of Lake Tefé, as a ...

Brazil extends moratorium on fishing for piracatinga, which are often caught using river dolphins as bait River dolphins across Brazil have a little extra breathing space after the government suddenly ...

We consider the Amazon to be the lungs of the world, but it is much more than that. Apart from containing the densest and ...

Pink river dolphins and tucuxi dolphins perished after Amazon lakes reached temperatures hotter than most spa baths and hot ...

TEFÉ, Brazil — Each morning for the last several weeks, researcher Miriam Marmontel has gazed out at Lake Tefé and the Amazon River, through a thick curtain of smoke from thousands of wildfires raging ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia (AP) — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of ...

SAO PAULO, Oct 27 (Reuters) - More rare freshwater dolphins in Brazil have been found dead in a new location along the Amazon River, in the latest grim fallout from the longest drought in the ...

River dolphins in the Amazon and Orinoco are under ever increasing pressure from the impact of hydropower dams and mercury contamination from small-scale gold mining, according to results from the ...

PUERTO NARINO, Colombia — A flash of pink breaks the muddy surface of the Amazon River as scientists and veterinarians, waist-deep in the warm current, patiently work a mesh net around a pod of river ...