Therefore, to find out more, the first scientific expedition in Peru to install satellite transmitters on pink river dolphins was recently carried out. A team of biologists, vets and geographers went ...

Scientists on Wednesday unveiled a 16 million-year-old fossil skull unearthed in Peru of a river dolphin that once swam in waters that are now the Amazon, and whose closest living relative is the ...

The team traveled more than 180 miles of the Napo River in northeastern Peru and collected dozens of other fossils. The dolphin skull is now housed at the Museo de Historia Natural in Lima.

The ancient creature, measuring 3-3.5 meters (9.8-11.5 feet), was surprisingly related to South Asian river dolphins rather than the local, living Amazon river pink dolphin and shared highly ...

Due to the remoteness of the region, it is unknown how many river dolphins are left in the Amazon basin, but a 950-kilometer, 9-day expedition in 2020 in Peru, Colombia and Brazil saw 484 pink ...

Frontiers in Physiology, 9. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01665 Banner image of Amazon river dolphin in Peru courtesy of Jose Luis Mena. FEEDBACK: Use this form to send a message to the author of this post.

There is also a species of Amazon river dolphin that is pink — but they only swim in waters of Amazon River basins in countries such as Brazil, Columbia, Bolivia and Peru, according to the World ...

The pink river dolphin, which can weigh up to 220 kilograms (485 pounds), has been classified as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature since 2018.

Paleontologist Rodolfo Salas said the skull belonged to the largest dolphin known to have inhabited the waters of South America, measuring 3 to 3.5 meters long (9.8 to 11.4 feet). "This dolphin is ...