Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Expedition Killer Whale" reveals an hour-long lesson where adult orca teach calves how to hunt seals off Antarctica.

Certain animals, though rare, have the size and anatomical abilities to swallow humans whole. Reticulated pythons, for ...

Researchers collected DNA samples from the distinctive bite wounds on the shark’s body that washed ashore near Portland, ...

Ackerman refers to local killer whale pods in two distinct groups: the ones he calls “meat eaters” and those that hunt ...

Some animals rely on brute strength to hunt, while others use intelligence, deception, and teamwork to outwit their prey.

More than a year after a massive great white shark washed ashore in southwestern Australia, scientists have uncovered its ...

DNA evidence has confirmed that killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver—marking the first recorded case ...