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It was an orca-versus-dolphin matchup, and the dolphin didn’t stand a chance. In coastal waters near Chile in 2023, a massive female killer whale walloped the much smaller dolphin, sending it flying ...

By Abhishyant Kidangoor How are whale populations faring? Traditionally, getting an answer to that question involved counting whales by taking their photos and identifying them from their natural ...

Killer whales have joined the rare club of animals that can make and use tools, for the first time being observed crafting a kind of brush out of kelp and then using it on fellow pod members. The feat ...

While well documented in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica, much less is known about killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Australia. However, orcas are actually sighted year-round in all coastal ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

Researchers focused on the Salish Sea have made an intriguing discovery about Orcas. These whales, which have continually surprised the scientific community with their intelligence and sophisticated ...

Gray, J. E. (1866). Catalogue of seals and whales in the British Museum. London, British Museum:280, 281 Skelton of adult male and female of 2 years in Louvain Museum. Gray gives the refernce of ...