But the locals have an even stranger tale; they've long told the story of Boto, the Amazonian River Dolphin species that turns pink. Surprisingly, it turns out that this bizarre tale is true.

While there is a species known as the pink river dolphin, that particular species lives in freshwater river basins across South America, according to the World Wildlife Fund.These animals were ...

The Facts. Pink dolphins are, in fact real, but their existence is often misunderstood. There are two types of species associated with the term "pink dolphin." ...

Pink River Dolphin or Boto (Inia geoffrensis) (Getty Images) People have sighted Albino bottlenose dolphins, though also rare, in the wild. A whale museum in Japan also captured an albino dolphin.

That means that it was likely born from two Irrawaddy dolphin parents. Both species can engage in alloparenting — providing care to young that aren't direct offspring — which may, in rare ...

According to Fernando Trujillo, a National Geographic Explorer and founder of the Omacha Foundation (which engages in Colombian conservation projects), the Amazon pink river dolphin population in ...

While scientists have documented just a handful of fresh-water dolphin species, the pink river dolphins are the largest, growing up to nine feet long (2.7 meters) and weighing some 300 pounds (136 ...

The pink river dolphin has been around the Amazon for over 15 million years. It’s an integral feature of the cultures and traditions of the people of the region, as well as an intrinsic part of ...

There’s the South Asian river dolphin (Platanista genus) and the Amazon river dolphin (Inia genus), also known as the pink river dolphin, and the two groups include several species and subspecies.

The largest dolphin species is the orca, which measures up to 32 feet (9.8 m) long, while the smallest species is the Hector's dolphin, which grows to only 4.8 feet (1.5 m) long.

The ancient creature, measuring 3-3.5 meters (9.8-11.5 feet), was surprisingly related to South Asian river dolphins rather than the local, living Amazon river pink dolphin and shared highly ...