The Art of “Spy Hopping” for Hunting Whale ... Orcas will circle the fish, using their large tails to create walls of bubbles that trap and confuse the fish, making it easier for orcas to snatch them ...

Particularly for juvenile female sharks, the energetic costs of unwanted attention from males could imply a reason for strong male biases.” The male bit the rear tail of the female whale shark ...

As BBC News filmed with scientists in the Antarctic Peninsula, one whale used its four-metre-long ... "Because of the size of their [tails] and flippers - and their ability to use them to pivot ...

Listen to article ANTIBES, FRANCE: A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving uncertain futures for the two last orcas ...

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Tahlequah is one of 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas, a killer whale population that lives in three pods − J, K an L − along the Salish Sea near British Columbia and Washington State.

A killer whale known as Tahlequah, who gained global attention in 2018 after carrying the body of her deceased newborn calf for 17 days, appears to be mourning another loss. According to the Center ...

A killer whale, which captured the world's attention in 2018 when it was spotted pushing the dead body of its newborn calf for 17 days, appears to be grieving again. The whale, known as Tahlequah ...

Researchers say that the killer whale’s newborn calf in Puget Sound has also died and she’s unable to let go. By Adeel Hassan The mother orca nudges her dead calf with her snout, draping it ...

She only lived for around a week and has been dead for a few days. “The death of any calf in the Southern Resident killer whale population is a tremendous loss, but the death of J61 is particularly ...