A minke whale what swam hundreds of miles upriver and spending 15 days there was found dead. Scientists wanted to get the whale back into the sea, but they were too late. There are no details on the cause of death. Scientists say that whale have been known to survive 2 month in fresh water and last 6 month without food. CNN

18 foot minke whale was found in the Amazon river 1000 miles from sea. Sea creatures rarely venture this far into fresh water. Scientists are working on a way to help the whale return to the ocean.Photos from Reuters

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Twice a year, on February or March, the Atlantic Ocean waters roll up the Amazon river, in Brazil, generating the longest wave on the Earth. The phenomenon, known as the POROROCA is caused by the tides of the Atlantic Ocean wich meet the mouth of the river. This tidal bore generates waves up to 12 feet high which can last for over half an hour. The name "Pororoca" comes from the indigenous Tupi language, where it tmeans "great destructive noise". The wave can be heard about 30 minutes before, and it's so powerful that it can destroy anything- trees, local houses and all kind of

South America's winding Amazon River flows in an easterly direction across the continent, dumping water into the Atlantic Ocean. But in eons past, it flowed from east-to-west and, for a time, in both directions at once, a new study finds.About 100 million years ago, during the middle of the Cretaceous Period when dinosaurs still walked the Earth, the continents of South America and Africa broke apart. The fissure created a raised highland along the east coast of South America, which tilted the Amazon's flow, sending water and sediment rushing toward the center of the continent ..The new finding