A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and ...

A 2018 study has revealed that killer whales, or orcas, have the ability to mimic human speech. Researchers trained a 14-year ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the reproductive biology of Pygmy killer ... Mammal Responder walk with a Pygmy killer whale that was found stranded off the beach at ...

The mere thought of whipping up butter out of thin air may have seemed absurd a decade ago but one innovation made it a ...

Award-winning author and ocean activist Mark Leiren-Young is bringing the mysterious world of octopuses to young readers in ...

Researchers at Kyoto University have found that contagious peeing is common among chimps at a local sanctuary.

But what we amusingly hypothesized as an "Orca-nized" crime spree may be something a little less sinister. After all, these animals are a playful bunch when they're not ruthlessly group-hunting ...

Grief has long thought to be a human trait, but other animals – from killer whales to crows – also appear to suffer loss when ...

The orca, known as Tahlequah ... professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. "They were surrounding the corpse with their heads down, sort ...

There are five types of killer whale in Antarctica, but only three found in these waters, near the peninsula south of South ...