Orcas are brilliant creatures. Their brains are highly developed when it comes to problem-solving skills, cognition, and ...

Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...

Killer whales are intelligent creatures, and scientists have recently discovered a new behavior among the species. Despite ...

This often overlooked peninsula in Patagonia, Argentina is famous for its outdoor adventures and marine life, especially ...

On more than 30 occasions and across four oceans, orcas have attempted to share their prey with people, potentially to ...

Dubbed "allokelping," it might be a unique cultural phenomenon that's as endangered as the orca population itself ...

He has only been the director of The Whale Museum for a few months, but Dr. Mike Kuperberg and his wife are already settling ...

The team ran experiments offering people who returned bottles the option of getting a typical ten-cent payout—or the small ...

Some of the most intriguing science fiction springs from eerie, real-life phenomena. Case in point, the mutant parasite in the video game series “The Last of Us.” ...

Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known identification of “tool” usage by marine mammals.

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