Listen to the people who live there, the slain journalist Dom Phillips advised.

Amazon River. Image via Openverse. The Amazon river dolphin possesses remarkable adaptations that scientists consider evolutionary marvels. Their eyesight, while functional, is relatively limited in ...

Boto Amazon Pink flumen Delphinus. Nortondefeis, CC BY-SA 4.0 per Vicimedia Communia. Deep within the murky waters of the Amazon River basin swims one of the world’s most enigmatic creatures – the ...

Amazon River dolphins have unique adaptations for enhanced maneuverability in floods and obstacle navigation. Credit : PINTEREST Great Hunters . Amazon River dolphins hunt over 50 fish types, ...

Amazon river dolphins live in murky waters where visibility is limited. Unlike marine dolphins, they seem to exploit chemical signals to interact. Urine sprayed into the air might contain information ...

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 air.

Lake Tefé, a lagoon formation of the Tefé River near the point where it meets the Solimões, has been experiencing a historic drought this year, reaching just 4.5 meters (14.9 feet) — 13.5 m ...

This year, the drought in Amazon rivers is already worse than in 2023, when 209 pink and grey river dolphins were found dead in Lake Tefé, in Amazonas state, largely due to overheating of the waters.

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 ...

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 ...