At the Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan, just 5km (3.1 miles) from the banks of the river, the preserved bodies of the ...

Scientists from NOAA’s Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center and other institutions found that between 1999 and 2022, the population of protected dolphins — known as “false killer whales” — shrunk ...

A new report finds that efforts to protect the dolphins are not working. Experts blame both fishing vessels and NOAA.

A caretaker calms an orphaned Irrawaddy river dolphin at the Marine Endangered Species Veterinary Hospital in Rayong, Thailand. When the dolphin's ready, it will be released to join its wild pod.

The freshwater dolphin already became functionally extinct in 2006 from many of the same threats. Extinction of the finless porpoise would throw the ecosystem out of balance, Liu explained.