Killer whales are known for hunting in packs, making them a dangerous creature. A pod of more than 60 orcas, better known as killer whales, have been spotted attacking and killing an 18-metre-long ...

Catching a Blue Whale in Fisch is not an easy task as you must do a lot of groundwork before. This includes learning about the location and the conditions under which they spawn. In this ...

An orca attack on a pygmy blue whale is witnessed by researchers and tourists onboard a whale-watching vessel off the WA coast. It is one of just a handful of documented killer whale attacks on a ...

Happily, Dionne has come up with a solution. “Why don’t we use the internationally agreed upon standard of measurement – the blue whale?” The blue whale genome is 2.4 billion bases in length.

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

However, some species – such as the blue whale – are lunge feeders and lunge at speed through huge clouds of krill to feed in mass quantities. Unlike toothed whales, baleen whales are usually ...

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Working together, the whales blow bubbles that trap schools of fish or krill, making them easy targets for the group. Once numbering over 225,000, Antarctic blue whales were nearly decimated by ...

Tourists off Australia's Bremer Bay watched as the orcas surrounded a 60ft endangered pygmy blue whale and tore it to shreds in a savage 90-minute attack. The event is so rare it's only the fourth ...

In the wake of this development, locals in the village speculated that the incident might be linked to an online challenge similar to the Blue Whale Challenge, a notorious game that gained ...