If you're ready for a summer romance, you're not alone in the mammal kingdom. In fact, even your aquatic brethren are getting ...

It's been 50 years since "Jaws" ruined that summer, spawning a fleet of increasingly dreadful sequels and knockoffs, turning ...

Researchers documented 34 instances of purported prey-sharing behavior, which suggests orcas may be altruistic and capable of ...

The encounter, observed by snorkelers in Norway, “involved repeated episodes of gentle, face-to-face oral contact.” ...

A nimals using tools is always a pretty cool facet of their behavior, from monkeys cracking nuts to elephants sabotaging ...

This is the first documented evidence of its kind of marine mammals fashioning tools out of objects in their environment, ...

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth ...

Killer whales have joined the rare club of animals that can make and use tools, for the first time being observed crafting a kind of brush out of kelp and then using it on fellow pod members.

Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known identification of “tool” usage by marine mammals. The “southern resident” killer ...

But the number of southern resident killer whales has dwindled to just 73, meaning we could soon lose this unique cultural tradition, he warned. "If they disappear, we're never getting any of that ...

June 23, 2025 at 4:00pm BST Orcas make seaweed tools in order to scratch each other’s backs, a study has suggested. The animals, also known as killer whales, were observed detaching lengths of ...

Center for Whale Research Southern resident killer whales are a critically endangered population protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Their current population is about 73.