Drones are used for many reasons these days, whether they are deployed for war, surveying road projects, or decorative purposes. Scientists at the New England Aquarium in Boston are now using drones ...

Scientists filmed the way killer whales hunt together. These images show one of the animals turning toward the other after a tail slap delivers a shock to herring. Paolo Domenici et al., Current ...

More than 50 years after her capture, the Miami Seaquarium's Lolita, one of the oldest killer whales in captivity, will be returned to her home waters in the Pacific. Plans are underway to move Lolita ...

Killer whales in aquariums regularly eat ice cubes, even though ice provides no calories or nutrients. It's a curious practice that has generated many questions because wild orcas never encounter ice ...

Researchers at the New England Aquarium are using drones to monitor the effects of climate change on endangered whale populations in Cape Cod Bay and Alaska. “Now we can understand why a population is ...

Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...