ORCAs, the ultimate ocean predators, are capable of hunting the largest animals on Earth, including blue whales and elephant ...

Elephants use all types of objects (including each other) to scratch or rub, often as a way to respond to itches from biting insects. Some objects become favored scratching spots are rubbed smooth.

Eventually, the elephants leave the city and meet her by the sea. They surround her, they are coming for her, and perhaps she is aware that they are also coming for her. When she reaches out to touch ...

Southern resident killer whales have been caught on drone video crafting kelp tools to groom one another—an unprecedented ...

Northern elephant seals can weigh more than 4,000 pounds so a single seal is a blubbery prize for Bigg’s killer whales, which prey almost exclusively on other marine mammals.

The lawsuits attempting to end the captivity of Happy the elephant and SeaWorld whales are forcing us to answer why animals do not have more rights. Elephants, whales blazing the trail for animal ...

Vincent Lynch analyzes the genomes of elephants, whales, manatees, and other outsize species. Douglas Levere, University at Buffalo. The genomes of these Afrotherians—both giants and relatives of ...

Primates, birds, and elephants are all known to make tools, but examples of tool use among marine animals are much more ...

Get the why and how behind the sounds of the water boatman, sperm whales, and other noisy animals. The water boatman can make quite a racket with its anatomy. Photograph by Ingo Arndt, Minden ...

A whale-watching tour got the photo opportunity of a lifetime when they spotted a rare white shark feeding from an elephant seal about 30 miles west of Santa Barbara. The group of about 50 people ...