Southern Resident killer whales are a small and well-studied group of orcas that have long been seen as an isolated group without much outside connection. New research challenges that view, ...

First spotted near Anchorage in March 2025, the three "mystery orcas" were next seen off the coast of Vancouver earlier this ...

Once heavily depleted, the waters off British Columbia now teem with humpbacks and orcas, seals and sea otters — an extraordinary comeback revealed on expert-led tours ...

In a sperm whale birth recorded in more intimate detail than ever before, local whales huddled around the mother and lifted ...

In 2023, researchers witnessed a rare event—a sperm whale being born. Their findings suggest a previously unknown level of ...

Some animals have been observed to kill prey but not eat it – which is known as surplus killing. Meet the creatures that take ...

March 26 (Reuters) - When a mother sperm whale gives birth, it is a remarkable team effort. Marine biologists have documented ...

Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.

The drone footage puts on display several behaviors: the whales are rolling, surfacing, opening their jaws, and circling back ...

Unrelated animals worked with the mother and her relatives, marking the first known evidence of whales from multiple families ...

Few people have been lucky enough to see a whale birth, with the last one witnessed decades ago. Now, two major papers ...

For a moment, biologist Shane Gero feared the worst—a brutal predator attack on a family of sperm whales he’d studied for ...