From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called ...

Two groups of killer whales are engaging in a terrifying, bloody cannibalistic war beneath the ocean’s surface, where gangs of the colossal creatures are attacking and eating each other, scientists ...

Word and photos of Vancouver’s mystery orcas reached marine biologist Emma Luck in Alaska. A year earlier, she had been alerted to a trio of mystery orcas in Turnagain Arm near Anchorage. Orcas are ...

Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

, March 10 -- Scientists have found possible evidence suggesting that some killer whales may hunt and eat their own species in waters near Russia.

Why punch a whale when you can sing to it?

Getting close to a stingray is risky, even for an accomplished predator such as an orca. They are not called stingrays for nothing! But if you can take them by surprise and stun them with a brutal ...

Follow this five-day South West road trip that works well as a complement to any Western Australia itinerary. Read more at ...

Maralyn and Maurice initially set off with an attitude of wonder and reverence for nature — Maurice especially deplored the damage that humans unleash on the natural world — and yet they end up having ...

The song is that of a humpback whale and was recorded by scientists in March 1949 in Bermuda, researchers said.