A local Indigenous tribe had watched over the orca calf after her pregnant mother died on a rocky beach in late March.

so the researchers used those same “copy me” cues to prompt the whales to replicate human speech. Remarkably, it worked. “We wanted to see how flexible a killer whale can be in copying ...

In a remarkable development that followed, a pod of killer whales who realise that the rescuers have saved the life of their companion swim around the humans as if to thank them. Finally ...

Orcas in captivity sometimes attack humans. Captive killer whales have been linked to four human deaths and many other violent incidents. For instance, a SeaWorld orca named "Tilikum" was involved ...

“Ultimately, as sentinels of ocean and human health ... the Pygmy killer whale in this case would not likely have been able to have been saved. “The worst part of our job is having to ...

Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale ...

Killer whale’s remarkable ability to mimic human sounds revealed Scientists of Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Chile have brought to light their research investigation on the elasticity ...