The Indus River dolphin, also known as the “bhulan,” is an endangered cetacean. Their eyes are so small that scientists believe they are functionally blind, sensing only the levels and direction of ...

Significant differences prove Indus river dolphin and Ganges river dolphin are two separate species After two decades of research, scientists have recognised the Endangered Indus and Ganges river ...

After two decades of research, a scientific study, led by the University of St Andrews, has recognized the endangered Indus and Ganges river dolphins as separate species. Since the 1990s, river ...

New genetic analysis and years of painstaking research has revealed that an endangered river dolphin is actually two species rather than one, as scientists had long assumed. Scientists spent about two ...

Gliding through the waters of the Indus River, Pakistan’s river dolphins – known locally as “bulhan” – can be glimpsed as they rise up to gulp air before submerging once again into the murky waters.

MOHAMMAD ALAM MIRANI VILLAGE, Pakistan – An unlikely citizen scientist is helping to save an endangered dolphin that lives in Pakistan's Indus River. He's a fisherman who cannot read or write. Using ...

Better collaboration is urgently needed to mitigate the impacts of climate change on three key river basins in South Asia—the Brahmaputra, Indus and Ganges—according to new analysis. The three rivers ...