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 ...

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 the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have discovered a new species of river dolphin from the Amazon. Writing in the journal Plos One, scientists led by Tomas Hrbek of ...

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The Araguaia river dolphin is the first new species described since 1918 Scientists in Brazil have discovered the first new river dolphin species since the end of World War One. Named after the ...

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 vast Amazon ...