Dozens of whales were rescued after becoming stranded on a remote beach in northern Iceland. Around 60 pilot whales, known ...

Dozens of whales were rescued after becoming stranded on a remote beach in northern Iceland. Around 60 pilot whales, known ...

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth ...

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

For the first time, orcas have been seen making and using tools out of seaweed. The reason? Most likely as a form of social ...

A days-old endangered sea creature swam with its mom near Washington.

A study published in the journal Current Biology describes a new example of tool use by a critically endangered population of ...

A new study reveals killer whales fashion kelp into tools and use them to groom each other, a possible first for marine ...

Thanks to new drone footage, killer whales have joined an exclusive club: the short list of animals that make and use tools.

Drone footage has captured killer whales breaking off stalks of kelp and rubbing the pieces on other orcas, a rare case of tool use in marine animals ...