Habitat. Platanista minor currently exists only in the freshwater Indus River. However, some paleontologists believe that river dolphins might have evolved from marine-dwelling relatives that eventually moved to estuaries and then rivers as seawater levels rose and fell during the Miocene. read more
The Indus River is in Asia.. It flows from Tibet through Pakistan into the Arabian Sea. read more
The South Asian river dolphin (Platanista gangetica) is an endangered freshwater or river dolphin found in the Indian subcontinent which is split into two subspecies, the Ganges river dolphin (P. g. gangetica)(~3,500 individuals) and the Indus river dolphin (P. g. minor)(~1,500 individuals). read more
Are Dolphins Endangered According to an estimate, there are no more than 5,000 Ganges river dolphins left, and the numbers are continuously decreasing especially in Nepal, India, and Bangladesh, where only 50 individuals are remaining. read more