This is the first documented evidence of its kind of marine mammals fashioning tools out of objects in their environment, ...

Australian marine scientists say new research documenting orcas using seaweed as a tool for grooming is further evidence of the species’ complex social structures.

We were amazed when we first noticed this behavior,” said Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for Whale Research in the U.S. state of Washington. What started as a puzzling observation in ...

Submitted by the Orca Network. Orca Network and Washington State Ferries will be hosting an event on board the ferry Tokitae on June 29th to celebrate Toki’s Legacy. The ferrys ...

The killer whales are using a kind of marine loofah to exfoliate. Rubbing the kelp between their bodies is a form of mutual ...

Learn more about a group of orcas in the Pacific Northwest that have been observed making and using tools to groom each other ...

Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known ...

Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known ...

Southern resident killer whales have been caught on drone video crafting kelp tools to groom one another—an unprecedented ...

In the first known toolmaking by a marine mammal, southern residents have been documented detaching lengths of seaweed and ...

For the first time, researchers say they have captured footage of killer whales making tools out of seaweed to seemingly ...

Researchers say higher quality drones helped them spot the whales regularly breaking off pieces of kelp to use as a tool, pressed between their bodies.