Dolphins are increasingly present off the Palos Verdes coast, providing a closer glimpse of one of the ocean’s most ...

Whale sharks, which can grow up to 18 meters long, feed at aggregation sites in the Gulf of California, occasionally while still young and relatively small. At this vulnerable life stage, they are ...

From here, scientists will analyse the data they have recorded from the whale and publish their findings under the direction of Te Rūnanga o Ōtākou. “It’s a week I’ll never forget in my life, it’s ...

Killer whales are known for their intelligence and power, even an inclination to sink yachts. Now, research is showing how they take down prey that few other animals can. Orcas in Mexico's Gulf of ...

Two orcas can be seen swimming past two kids in this nail-biting video. Orcas, or killer whales, are majestic creatures that rule the ocean’s depths ... While the kids were left with a memory for life ...

When Eastern Tropical Pacific killer whales visit San Diego waters via Mexico, it’s always exciting for observers. For starters, the ETPs visit primarily to hunt common dolphins. These predation ...

Moctezuma — the last Aztec emperor, before the Spanish invasion — is the name chosen by researchers to baptize a male orca. In the Gulf of California, along the northwestern coast of Mexico, he leads ...

Writing lessons in Mrs. Friend's 4th-grade class at Carl E. Schluter Elementary School in Haslet are about more than good grammar and sentence structure. Students are learning the power of their ...

enhance the growth of phytoplankton that collectively capture 37 billion tons of CO2 per year and cycle nutrients to the deep sea when they die. Moreover, whales embody immense cultural value to ...

It’s not clear what the behavior means. Southern resident killer whales are critically endangered and most likely on a path toward extinction. A killer whale was spotted balancing a salmon on ...

But for this group of orcas—unlike other orca groups in the Pacific or the Atlantic—it seems no prey is too large. Not even a whale shark, the biggest fish species on Earth. In a new study ...

"We've seen mammal-eating killer whales carry large chunks of food under their pectoral fin, kind of tucked in next to their body," Giles said. Salmon is probably too small to fit securely under ...