Orcas have long been revered for their intelligence, adaptability, and group-hunting strategies. But one scientific review ...

Charlotte Rampling and Richard Harris are the heavy-hitting Oscar nominees facing off with a big plastic whale.

Other animals including some early humans, non-human primates, sea otters, elephants, and bird species are known to use objects to make tools. While the bubble nets that humpback whales use to catch ...

Orcas, better known as killer whales, sit atop the aquatic food chain as one of the most lethal apex predators on Earth.

Between May and August, thousands of humpback whales migrate north along Australia's East coast to warmer waters. They travel ...

When Free Willy splashed on to the silver screen in 1993, little did people imagine the wave of applause the film would ...

Animals can be a human’s best friend — or worst enemy. For every Free Willy, Old Yeller, Air Bud, or Beethoven, there are animal attack movies featuring everything from avian assaults (The Birds) and ...

The study authors identified the practice via drone footage of these orcas, publishing the findings on Monday in Current Biology. This small community of black-and-white mammals inhabits ... of the ...

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. The “southern ...

On a cold January day I was surrounded by hundreds of black-and-white killer whales— Orcinus orca, not a whale but rather the largest dolphin—streaking like wolves through the waters of Norway ...

Efforts to save the Northwest’s endangered orcas are not working on either side of the U.S.-Canada border, according to an ...