A long-term study using DNA from whale scat has revealed surprising complexity in the diets of southern Alaska’s fish-eating killer whales.

In deep, tropical offshore waters, there exists a whale that’s roughly the size of a dolphin. Sightings of it are extremely rare, and few people have captured it on film. Despite its small size, it ...

Eleven pygmy killer whales beached near Haikou Port (海口港) in Pingtung County’s Checheng Township (車城), with seven being returned to the ocean and four dying, the Ocean Conservation Administration said ...

Fins washing up in the North Pacific suggest that orcas from one subspecies are snacking on other orcas, and researchers ...

Welcome to Raja Ampat — an archipelago of over 1,500 islands, most completely uninhabited and untouched. Beneath the surface ...

A long-term study shows southern Alaska killer whales switch between salmon species and also eat groundfish as seasons and ...

Fish-eating killer whales in southern Alaska have a diverse, seasonally changing diet featuring salmon and groundfish, ...

Coast guard rescuers in southern Taiwan rushed on Tuesday (Feb 24) to save a pod of pygmy killer whales that had stranded on ...

The Ocean Conservation Administration said several pygmy killer whale strandings have occurred in southwestern Taiwan during the spring in recent years, though the causes remain unclear. The agency ...

Many researchers thought the two-month absence was caused by the predation of a white shark by a group of orcas. Now a new ...

A widely publicized killer whale attack once seemed to explain why white sharks disappeared from a key aggregation site. Long-term tracking now suggests the reality is more nuanced. Killer whales (Orc ...