Scientists have found a new species of river dolphin that's been living in Brazil's Araguaia River — the first such discovery in nearly 100 years — and their research may settle some long-standing ...

Within hours of publication, a peer-reviewed study announcing the discovery of a new river dolphin species was already being dissected on Twitter. Should years of research conducted by a team of ...

Scientists in Brazil have discovered a new species of river dolphin, the first new species to be found since 1918. Known as Inia araguaiaensis, it can mostly be found in a 932-mile stretch of the ...

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The Tocantins-Araguaia waterway is one of the Brazilian government’s priority projects for transporting soy, corn, meat, minerals and other commodities to ports in the Amazon Rainforest. The project ...

Of all the extraordinary footage captured by the film crews making BBC's Planet Earth II the sight of five pale dolphins swimming through murky water is not the most jaw-dropping. However the short ...

Scientists have made the first discovery in 100 years of a new river dolphin species in the waters of the Araguaia river in Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest. The discovery of the "Inia araguaiaensis" ...