Rising toxins found in bowhead whales, harvested for subsistence purposes by Alaska Native communities, reveal that ocean ...

Southern resident orcas are using kelp tools to groom each other. The fact our local orcas do this grooming together, as a social behavior, is a big deal. Dr. Michael Weiss from the Center for Whale ...

As if orcas weren’t frightening enough, experts think they are getting even smarter as they have started to learn some terrifying new behaviours. The whale species, commonly known as killer whales, is ...

Trump has committed to increasing U.S. energy production, particularly fossil fuels. He signed an executive order Monday ...

A lifeless whale was found Wednesday stranded just meters off a beach in the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Experts from the ...

The Pentagon increasingly sees the Pacific as its most important theater of operations as tensions brew between the U.S. and ...

In a new sign of toolmaking in marine mammals, orcas in the Pacific Northwest were recorded rubbing stalks of kelp against ...

Credit: Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 27038 Lots of animals use tools to get their food, but researchers just observed an animal tool that they think might be for something different: ...

This is the first documented evidence of its kind of marine mammals fashioning tools out of objects in their environment, according to the Center for Whale Research.

Video footage shows the massive sea creature breaching the ocean surface off Australia with the line clearly visible across ...