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 ...

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

This is the first documented evidence of its kind of marine mammals fashioning tools out of objects in their environment, ...

Killer whales turn kelp stalks into tools that they use to groom each other while cleaning their own skin, too, observations ...

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 ...

Researchers using a new drone say they have observed killer whales finding and modifying stalks of kelp to preen each other.

When author Peter Benchley’s 1974 book was going to print, he needed to choose a title. He has juggled various titles — ...

The 2025 BC Student Film Festival, held at Simon Fraser University’s Gastown campus, brought together the province’s most ...

Two whales found dead at a coastal park in northeast Florida are believed to be a mother and her calf, state officials say. The discovery was made Wednesday, June 18, about a 15-mile drive northeast ...

When Jaws hit theaters in 1975, it didn't just invent the summer blockbuster-it kicked off a feeding frenzy of killer ...