The Pentagon increasingly sees the Pacific as its most important theater of operations as tensions brew between the U.S. and ...

The feat – incredibly rare for marine animals – was seen and captured by researchers from the Center for Whale Research (CWR) based in Washington state, adding to the quirky behaviors already ...

“We were amazed when we first noticed this behavior,” said Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for Whale Research in the U.S. state of Washington. What started as a puzzling ...

For the first time, scientists from around the world have come up with a plan to save the critically endangered southern ...

Two whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. CREDIT: Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 270. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs ...

Two killer whales "allokelping" with a kelp stem between them Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 27038, via University of Exeter Killer whales, also known as orcas, are incredibly ...

“What I find remarkable about this behavior is just how widespread it is in the population,” lead author Michael Weiss, of the Washington-based Center for Whale Research, said in a statement.

Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 27038 In recent years, some orcas in other regions have been jostling and ramming boats, and sometimes sinking them, in the waters around southern Europe.

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In the first known toolmaking by a marine mammal, southern residents have been documented detaching lengths of seaweed and using them to massage each other.

Orcas were spotted using kelp as a grooming tool on each other, the first known use of tools among cetaceans for something other than hunting prey.

Drones spot the “first evidence” of killer whales making tools out of seaweed, according to a new study. The orcas used the tools to groom one another.