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 her right foot.

Scientists are perplexed by a strange new behaviour shown by the Amazon river dolphin of flipping belly-up to urinate with another male “actively” seeking the stream with its snout. The quirky ...

Pink river dolphins may sound like something out of a fairy tale, but are very much the real deal, and these pink creatures call the Amazon — as well as river basins in neighboring countries ...

The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat.

The newly resurfaced footage, originally captured in March 2016, shows an Amazon river dolphin, also known as botos, urinating into the air in Brazil’s Tocantins River.

The weird way dolphins are peeing in the Amazon River is baffling scientists. ... holding fishermen’s oars and playing with sticks, clay, rocks, logs, and turtles.

After around 219 hours of observations, they can confirm that male Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis), also known as botos, often roll onto their backs and urinate over three feet into the ...

She said 300 dolphins died in 2023, most of them in Lake Tefe, a 45km-wide expanse of water where the dolphins like to be located, just off the Solimoes River.. The lake’s water reached 40.9 deg ...

In the murky waters of the Amazon, pink river dolphins exhibit a surprising behavior. Jets of urine sprayed into the air may play a key role in their social interactions. These cetaceans, known as ...

The Amazon river dolphin is the largest species of river dolphin. They are born dark grey, but turn pink as they mature. (Image credit: Serge MELESAN / 500px via Getty Images) ...

The weird way dolphins are peeing in the Amazon River is baffling scientists. Vishwam Sankaran. ... holding fishermen’s oars and playing with sticks, clay, rocks, logs, and turtles.

Rare Amazon river dolphins studied for climate ... the carcasses of more than 200 river dolphins were found floating on the lake formed by a ... with other factors such as El Niño at play.