We were amazed when we first noticed this behavior,” said Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for Whale Research in the U.S. state of Washington. What started as a puzzling observation in ...

A mission to save an entangled whale off Australia’s east coast has been captured in a series of rare aerial photographs.

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth ...

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Bowhead whales are capable of breaking through sea ice at least seven inches thick with their large skulls and powerful bodies," writes the World Wild Life site. The Silent Wisdom of the Deep We'll ...

The juvenile whale was over 29 feet long. Recently-released necropsy results found that the whale was struck by a ship, causing blunt force trauma to the head. According to Lowcountry Marine Network, ...

A 29-foot-long humpback whale found dead on a South Carolina beach suffered a horrific death when its head was bashed by a ...