Great white sharks might have a reputation as apex predators, but they’re not – the real top of the food chain in the ocean are these: orcas. In fact, two of them – nicknamed Port and Starboard – are ...

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The pygmy whale in question was thought to be around 18 meters long (59 feet) and was hunted and killed by a pod of more than ...

Sperm whales, the planet’s largest toothed predator, have incredibly complex social structures and cultural practices. During a recent WWF-backed research expedition around Greece’s northwestern ...

Orcas have long been known to travel through the Gulf of Mexico but they are arguably the marine species that is most rarely seen in the Gulf. But a ...

The episode, witnessed off the Australian coast, offers a rare glimpse into the brutal efficiency of the ocean’s top predator.

A new study based on two decades of data shows what happens in an ocean ecosystem without great white sharks. Great white ...

Rights activists on Friday urged French authorities to transfer two orcas from Antibes’ shuttered Marineland to a sanctuary ...

From the adorable but deadly pine marten to the massive sperm whale, get to know some of the amazing animals that call ...

On Apr. 6, Center for Whale Research biologist Mark Malleson spotted the J Pod heading west past Victoria Harbour, off Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It was then that he saw a newborn calf ...

Tourists on a whale-watching boat off Australia witnessed five families of killer whales attack 150-ton mammal.

The Centre for Whale Research says one of its field biologists has spotted a new calf in a pod of endangered killer whales ...