Scientists Wednesday announced the discovery of the 16-million-year-old remains of the largest river dolphin ever found on ...

In Buddhist Jataka, Buddha once turned himself into a red fish and offered his flesh to people to save them from starvation ...

Some dolphin species live in freshwater rivers, like the Amazon ... They often hunt in groups, working as a team to trap fish ...

Another, the Ganges River dolphin, is critically endangered ... In Myanmar, the dolphins help herd schools of fish toward fishermen's boats and nets. In Bangladesh, fishermen hold them in high ...

Locally known as Bhulan, the Indus river dolphin is the most endangered freshwater dolphin species in the world. It is native to the Indus River system, with the only viable population existing in ...

But WWF has been working to conserve them for years, playing a critical part in helping to increase numbers of the Indus River dolphin in Pakistan, create new breeding populations of the Yangtze ...

They often hunt in groups, working as a team to trap fish or other ... stitches after pink river dolphins attacked her, and several people were injured in a series of dolphin attacks off the ...