The river dolphins of India’s sacred Ganges River have been written into Hindu religious tracts dating back thousands of years. So revered, the Ganges River dolphin was one of the world’s first ...

Lahore, Pakistan: River dolphins are descended from marine dolphins and have adapted to life in fresh water, so they are no longer capable of surviving in the sea. This may be their undoing as the ...

Ganges river dolphins are now rare throughout Nepal. In 2016, the Department of Wildlife Conservation and National Parks estimated the river dolphin population in the country at 52 individuals: 43 in ...

47288.jpeg Credit: BIOSPHOTO / Alamy Stock Photo 2YHMAT0 Blue waters of the Karnali river with a Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) coming to breathe at the surface., Bardia or Bardiya ...

The Ganges River dolphin, known for its unique features, is found in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system and its tributaries across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan.

"This dolphin is related to the dolphin of the Ganges river in India," Salas said, adding the one found in Peru is much bigger than its living relatives in Asia.

Alongside the endangered Ganges River Dolphin, which is largely found in neighboring India, they are the only extant members of a superfamily of cetaceans called the Plantanista (cetaceans are ...

They include living species like the Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica), which survives in the waterways of the Ganges river in India.

The Ganges River dolphin, known for its unique features, is found in the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system and its tributaries across India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan.

The Ganges river dolphin was "once present in tens of thousands of numbers" but has now "dwindled abysmally" to a population to less than 1,800 in the last century, according to the World Wildlife ...

As the sun sets over a serene stretch of the mighty Ganges, a pair of smooth, grey dolphins arch gracefully out of the water, bringing hope that wildlife can again call India's great river home.

Ganges river dolphin in Narayani. The second lesson is to conduct a detailed census of Nepal’s rivers to establish the true population status of its river dolphins, an activity that is in line with ...