Photographs (left) showing the extinct right whale partial skull with shark bite marks highlighted in red. The more complete ...

The Galapagos Islands are unique and fascinating for many reasons. Situated on the equator, west of Ecuador, they are home to some unbelievable animals. Four strong ocean currents converge here, ...

Deep down in the sea, where no light penetrates and where the availability of food is very low, life somehow exists in ways ...

T here’s a lot to see, do and eat between Toronto and the Maritimes. Mapping out a road trip that’s doable within a week necessitated some painful omissions. (Dear PEI, Cape B ...

The University of Rochester's scientists revealed the secret to the Bowhead whale's longevity via a special regenerative ...

From bone-eating snot-flowers to snowboarding scale worms, when a whale dies it becomes a colossal island of nutrients – attracting weird and wonderful creatures to feast.

Word and photos of Vancouver’s mystery orcas reached marine biologist Emma Luck in Alaska. A year earlier, she had been ...

Two groups of killer whales are engaging in a terrifying, bloody cannibalistic war beneath the ocean’s surface, where gangs ...

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

Historically, killer whale diet research relied on surface sampling of prey fragments, usually scales, helping researchers to determine primarily salmon species. Newer techniques that analyze DNA in ...

Two severed fins bearing the tooth marks of other killer whales have raised a troubling question: are some orcas hunting their own kind?

NAPLES, Fla.—The Collier County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission are tending to a beached pilot whale on a Naples beach. WINK Weather Watcher Tom Pilecki ...