Scientists have documented what might be the first case of friendly interactions between killer whales and smaller cetaceans.

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

The smallest species of whale tricks its predators by gushing red gallons of red fluid into the water when under attack ...

Whales are already known to frolic through seaweed in a practice called “kelping”. They are thought to do this partly for fun ...

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.

The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

Scientists have been monitoring southern resident killer whales in the Salish Sea for more than 50 years. ... The whales mainly eat Chinook salmon, ... Is this dolphin talking to himself out of ...

The researchers called the new behaviour “allokelping,” which means kelping with another whale. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Killer whales have been caught on video breaking off pieces of seaweed to rub and groom each other, scientists announced Monday, in what they said is the first evidence of marine mammals making ...

Like whales, they’re considered ... like the bottlenose dolphin, eat a general diet of fish, squid, and krill, and have very typical, conical, blunt teeth. While other species, like the orca ...