River dolphins are cetaceans, which means that they related to whales and porpoises. These mammals live only in rivers and waterways of Asia and South America. There are five species of river dolphins belonging to three different families. In Asia...

River dolphins are four living species of dolphin which reside in freshwater rivers and estuaries. They are classed in the Platanistoidea superfamily of cetaceans. Three species live in fresh water rivers. The fourth species, the La Plata Dolphin,...

It seems almost too bizarre, the stuff of black comedy - a bottlenose dolphin living near a power plant in the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River, one of the most contaminated waterways on the East Coast. Remarkably, though, scientists and river-watchers...

The sound came first, a sharp blowing sound from somewhere in the muddy waters of the Mekong River. Then Phong Choeun got a brief, breath-catching glimpse of what he had been looking for - the blue-gray fin of an irrawaddy dolphin. Villagers...

A crew of Brazilian fishermen was captured on video killing 83 dolphins and joking about their illegal haul, Brazil's Ibama environmental protection agency said Tuesday.The video obtained by an Ibama researcher and broadcast by Globo TV showed the fishermen netting the dolphins, which suffocated because...

An exterminator was sentenced to prison Friday for stealing more than 2,000 exhibits including dolphin, leopard and bat skeletons in Australia's biggest museum theft.Dutch-born Hendrikus van Leeuwen, 50, was sentenced in the New South Wales state District Court to seven years imprisonment for stealing the...