The burps, barks and snorts humpback whales make when asking their mother for milk are the first recorded instances of ...

Orca J35 made world headlines in 2018 when she carried her dead baby on her nose for 17 days. Her apparent 1,000-mile tour of ...

A humpback whale that had been thrilling boaters off Newport Beach, Ca., for several days breached for a prolonged period Sunday, revealing that the mammal is hardly free and thriving.

A newborn orca calf has been sighted in Puget Sound in Washington state, sparking cautious hope for the endangered southern ...

Their work revealed, for the first time, that spade-toothed whales have tiny vestigial teeth in their upper jaw. Vestigial ...

On four occasions caught on video, a group of orcas preyed on whale sharks in the Gulf of California. The orcas would work together to hit the whale shark until it turned upside down. Image ...

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An especially popular killer whale put a dead fish on his head, in a throwback to a fashion last seen in the 1980s.

A synthetic bag found inside the intestines of a whale that became stranded in Hong Kong waters is “highly likely” to have resulted in the animal’s death as the piece of rubbish could have ...

Now, researchers have found compelling evidence to confirm that a specific pod in the Gulf of California has developed an astonishing new skill: hunting enormous whale sharks. That's literally big ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about ...

Whale sharks are gentle, filter-feeding giants, but orcas in Mexican waters were documented attacking the animals and devouring their livers. By Jason Bittel Off Baja California in Mexico, a ...