There are some incredible animals that roamed the earth and its oceans millions of years ago, and an ancient freshwater dolphin species was just discovered in the Peruvian Amazon. The Weather Channel ...

Washington, DC—The National Marine Fisheries Service today protected rare Taiwanese humpback dolphins, listing the species as “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act. The decision comes in ...

Scientists determined that bottlenose dolphins found close to the shore off South Carolina and much of the east coast are a different species than those living in deeper water, according to a study ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new species of ancient dolphin has been discovered and it boasts ...

New research by Flinders University scientists sheds new light on the reasons why two species of dolphins coexist in the northern Australian waters. Australian snubfin (Orcaella heinsohni) and ...

In-depth research of two of Australia's dolphin species shows how their behaviors have evolved to co-exist and form mixed-species groups in northwestern Australia. Using detailed data collected over a ...

Washington, DC—The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced today that it would begin a status review to determine whether the highly imperiled Atlantic humpback dolphin should be protected ...

Since the 1980s, the combined populations of river dolphin species have plummeted by 73%. With the Global Declaration for River Dolphins, 14 countries (six of them in Latin America) are expected to ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A rare, endangered dolphin has been found dead after apparently ...

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 ...