A routine whale watching tour has taken a dark and rare turn as a pod of orcas showed why they’re called killer whales.

Many of the orcas captured and sent to marine theme parks in the 1960s and 1970s came from the Pacific Northwest. An incident 50 years ago this month changed that. A staffer in then-Washington ...

A boat full of tourists was treated to a heart-stopping display just moments from the coastline. For the first time in ...

New research from the University of St Andrews reports sperm whales headbutting one another. The behavior was captured on ...

Whales make the news for lots of reasons: there’s international disagreements about whaling, research groups trying to decode ...

Researchers have captured extraordinary footage of sperm whales randomly headbutting each other, confirming anecdotal reports from mariners and whalers in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) really do use their massive heads to deliberately push and strike objects. A team of scientists using a drone filmed sperm whales headbutting each other during ...

The rule change would increase the distance boats must keep from the endangered orcas to 1,000 metres from the current 400.

Scientists have finally captured something long rumored but never proven: sperm whales headbutting each other. Using drone ...