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

A study published in the journal Current Biology describes a new example of tool use by a critically endangered population of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Leveraging the university's long-running research on northern elephant seals at Año Nuevo Natural Reserve, Costa estimated the amount of nitrogen that would be released while the whales were fasting ...

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 ...

In the U.S., there is no better state for whale watching than California. Each winter, an estimated 24,000 gray whales travel 6,000 miles from the chilly waters of Alaska to the balmy bays of ...