For underwater photographer Brian Skerry, there are good days. The sun shines, the water’s clear, the surface is calm, the whales come, and Skerry can slip into the ocean fast enough to ...

Although whales are expert swimmers and perfectly adapted to life underwater, these marine mammals once walked on four legs ... Others whales keep their teeth - this group includes dolphins, porpoises ...

Baleen whales, for example, sieve tiny krill and plankton through their baleen plates, consuming up to 4,000 pounds of these tiny creatures each day! 3. The Orca-Humpback Feud It seems there’s ...

Our current knowledge of orca – killer whales – has been greatly added ... Yet, most of orcas’ lives occur underwater and therefore out-of-sight. Because it’s much more difficult to ...

Elemans said the animals adapted their voice boxes over tens of millions of years to make sounds underwater ... was not part of the Nature study. Killer whales trapped in drift ice off northern ...

According to Japanese media reports, orcas, unlike other large whales, can't remain underwater for too long and need to resurface every few minutes. Nakayama, best known for her role in the 1995 ...

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Scientists discovered that a pod of orcas have developed a new method for killing whale sharks ... shined some light on the underwater mystery.