Puget Sound was a global kelp capital for millennia. If we work together, we can enlist the next generation of ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Expedition Killer Whale" reveals an hour-long lesson where adult orca teach calves how to hunt seals off Antarctica.

A new marine predator rivalry is emerging in the waters of Australia, shaking up the long-established hierarchy of the oceans ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

The New York Times reports that for a whopping thirty years, the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperator (CWHC) never had a ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...