Adrián Simancas , a 24-year-old kayaker in Chile, detailed what it was like to be in the mouth of a humpback whale as his father captured the jarring encounter on video on Feb. 8.
The adult female, seeking a new home with her calf after the closure of Marineland in France, faces the grim reality of ...
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...
New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...
Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.
The endangered southern resident killer whales that visit Puget Sound were listed for protection under the federal Endangered ...
Scientists confirm that orcas and dolphins have lost the ability to return to dry land due to irreversible evolutionary ...
The food, the weather, the beaches… thousands of tourists flock to the Mediterranean Sea every year, and with good reason. In fact, for many, it would be unfathomable to imagine a world without ...
Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale ... [+] seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.
“He’s the only sea otter in the immediate area, so the assumption is that he does this, kills the river otters, and then sort of has his way with them for multiple days, to release that sexual tension ...
Over a year after a dead 15-foot shark was found with mysterious bite wounds and stripped of its internal organs, DNA ...
A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly as bright as the Sun. Shockwaves powerful enough to flatten everything ...