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An unlikely citizen scientist is helping to save an endangered dolphin that lives in Pakistan’s Indus River. He’s a fisherman who cannot read or write. Using his battered mobile, Sikander Ali calls a ...

The Amazon basin was once home to freshwater dolphins that grew up to 3.5 metres long – making them the largest river dolphins known to science. Researchers made the surprise discovery during a 2018 ...

The Punjab government has declared a stretch of the Indus River with the highest concentration of the endangered Indus River dolphin in the province as the 'Punjnad Indus River Dolphin Wildlife ...

Paleontologists discovered a fossilized skull of a newly described species of giant freshwater dolphin in the Peruvian Amazon, which lived around 16 million years ago and is considered the ...

Some of the longest, most important migrations of species on Earth are happening beneath the surface of the world's rivers and many are rapidly collapsing, according to a major new assessment by the ...

VICHADA, Colombia—From the bow of a canoe-shaped motor boat called a bongo, marine biologist Fernando Trujillo aimed his zoom lens toward a stretch of muddied river water flowing past an ochre-colored ...

When people think of life in the St Johns River, I suspect they fall into two camps. Those that tend to consider the large charismatic megafauna like manatees and dolphins, and those that go toward ...

Migratory freshwater fish populations have declined 81 percent globally since 1970. 97 percent of listed migratory fish species are threatened with extinction, with hundreds more newly identified as ...

A sweeping global report finds that migratory freshwater fish are in steep decline, with populations down roughly 81% since 1970. These species depend on long, connected rivers, but dams and human ...