NOAA Fisheries is monitoring the situation. Scientists raise red flags after observing concerning new whale behavior: 'We're ...

A discovery of unique killer whale behavior may be the first documented time a marine species has been seen using and ...

While well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica, much less is known about killer whales (Orcinus orca) in ...

The orcas clearly liked this activity because different whales were recorded preparing the stems eight times and rolling the ...

Killer whales are one of the main predators of baleen whale calves and are apex predators that hunt in packs. Although they can sometimes be found in tropical waters, they usually prefer colder water.

The fight species of baleen whales usually migrate and calve closer to the coast in shallow water, a haven of sorts that provides easier defense against killer whale attacks—especially for group ...

Climate change pushing killer whales to migrate north 10 August 2024 at 6:36. Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord.

Transient killer whales — including a calf — were spotted swimming out of the Yaquina River. Photographer Jaklyn Larsen has already documented three sightings this year, including the well ...

Those whales share an increasingly busy ocean with shippers, whose vessels travel the equivalent of more than 4,600 times the distance to the Moon and back each year, the scientists estimated.

In 1992, a colleague had returned from a fishing trip in Baja with a story about seeing two killer whales attacking a whale shark. But Ms. Schulman-Janiger was never able to confirm the event.

Migrating whales typically gorge in summers at higher latitudes to build up energy reserves to make the long migration to lower latitudes. It's still unclear exactly why the whales migrate, but it ...

The transient Biggs Killer Whales that migrate through the Puget Sound and Salish Sea do not exhibit the same behavior, despite cutting kelp free and moving through bull kelp forests.