When dead whales are left on the beach or floating atop the waves, their carcasses can, in fact, explode due to the build-up ...

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 ...

A group of orcas in the North Pacific have been captured on video breaking off pieces of seaweed to groom each other ...

Over the years, orcas have been seen partaking in some peculiar practices, from sinking sailboats to wearing salmon “hats.” ...

From the entanglement of Shelagh, a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, to the awe-inspiring appearance of the ...

In Australia, rescuers sprang into action to free a humpback calf from a deadly shark net as its mother watched. Off ...

Australia’s Dolphin Discovery Centre in Bunbury recorded a lost humpback whale that had ended up in Koombana Bay in mid-June. The team at the centre decided to send up a drone to monitor the whale, ...

“We found that sharks follow what’s known as the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ almost perfectly,” explained Joel Gayford, a PhD candidate at James Cook University (JCU) in Australia and lead author on a ...

Brave rescuers risk their own safety to free animals like humpback whales that become entangled in ropes and other fishing ...

Boaters off the coast of California got the chance to see the biggest animal on Earth and the group is calling it a “once in ...

A 35-foot blue whale was discovered dead in Balochistan’s Gwater Bay, located near the border between Iran and Pakistan. The ...