Killer whales have joined the rare club of animals that can make and use tools, for the first time being observed crafting a ...

New research shows southern resident killer whales grooming each other using kelp they’ve modified, and researchers think ...

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

Orcas observed ‘making seaweed tools’ to massage each other, study suggests - Scientists observed the surprising social ...

Other animals including some early humans, non-human primates, sea otters, elephants, and bird species are known to use ...

Although orcas around the world are all categorized as a single species, they don't really behave as one. Distinct ...

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

Scientists spotted the behaviour in drone footage of orcas in the Salish Sea, in the inland waters of the US state of ...

The whales use quick body movements to tear pieces of bull kelp for use as tools, perhaps the first known toolmaking by a marine mammal.

Orcas have been spotted giving each other rubdowns with kelp tools, rubbing pieces of the seaweed between their bodies.