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 ...

On January 22, six scientists—five hailing from Brazil and one from the U.K.'s Centre for Remote Environments—reported the existence of a new river dolphin species living in Brazil's Araguaia ...

Scientists in Brazil have discovered the first new species of river dolphin since 1918. The new species known as, Inia araguaiaensis, can mostly be found in a 932 mile stretch of the Araguaia ...

It probably became isolated from the sea – which is 1,000km away – and evolved into a distinct species 2million years ago when the Araguaia-Tocantins river basin in Brazil became separated ...

Researchers working in Brazil have discovered a new species of river dolphin in the Araguaia river basin, according to the journal PLOS ONE.

These Araguaia dolphins are distant relations to sea-dwelling dolphins - and have long beaks which let them hunt for fish in the mud at the bottom of rivers ...

SÃO PAULO — Scientists have made the first discovery in 100 years of a new river dolphin species. The discovery of the “Inia araguaiaensis” in the waters of the Araguaia river in Brazil’s ...

Cranium and mandible of I. araguaiaensis PLOS ONE, HRBEK ET AL. For nearly a century, scientists were only aware of two species of river dolphins residing in the freshwater network that includes the ...

Scientists have discovered the first new river dolphin species in almost 100 years. They have named the new breed, which is only the fifth river dolphin species in the world, ‘Araguaia’, after ...