A new study observed Amazon river dolphins for 218.9 hours and saw males spurt urine into the air 36 times—proof that the ...

It’s a finding of evolution and adaptation in a changing ... we expected to find close relatives of the living Amazon River dolphin – but instead the closest cousins of Pebanista are the ...

Over four years, a team from Canada’s CetAsia Research Group traveled to the Amazon river, where they then closely watched ...

There’s the South Asian river dolphin (Platanista genus) and the Amazon river dolphin (Inia ... a tremendously important environment for the evolution of freshwater cetaceans.” ...

Aerial urination by the Amazon dolphin (Claryana Araújo-Wang) The study documents 36 instances of “aerial urination” by boto between 2014 and 2018 and records the sequence, duration and ...

Male dolphins have been observed shooting jets of urine into the air and other dolphins seem to follow the stream, perhaps to ...

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 ...

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.

Amazon river dolphins swim in the tea-colored Ariau River ... While most animals can detect the scents from urine, evolution has caused dolphins to lose their sense of smell, so they rely on ...