Oceanography
Mischievous whales use bird trap tips
A killer whale (orca) in the aquarium has surprised everyone with its intelligence and cunning when using a trick to catch birds.
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Oceanography
Rescue killer killer whales on the rocks
Canadian scientists attempted to maintain life for a killer whale that had been stranded for nearly 9 hours, until the tide came to free it from the bumpy rocks.
Oceanography
Killer whales tore tiger sharks into pieces
Three killer whales rushed to attack, biting the poor tiger shark, before tearing their prey into pieces.
Oceanography
The killer whale also suffers from menopause
Killer whales undergo menopause the same as in humans, and this trait can be evolved to improve their descendants' survival.
Oceanography
Canada: Race to save whales stuck in ice
Canadian rescue workers are racing against time to rescue 11 killer whales trapped in ice in Hudson Bay.
Oceanography
Adult killer whales still rely on their mothers
Scientists found the longest menopausal killer whale among the animals except humans. This helps them to nurture the grown-up sons, increasing the ability to transmit se…
Oceanography
The first white killer whale was discovered
Scientists say they have discovered a fish believed to be an adult white killer whale off the coast of Kamchatka, eastern Russia. They named it Iceberg. If this informat…
Oceanography
Three new species of tiger fish were discovered
The report, published in the journal Genome Research, said US scientists have discovered three new strains of amphibian fish using mitochondrial DNA sequencing technolog…
Oceanography
Crocodiles never intentionally kill people
The fact that giant killer whales do not have the habit of killing at sea.
Oceanography
Spectacular killer whales hunting
A killer whale tried to follow the young seal on the sea and drank the blood with a massive body up close to the shore to catch the prey but failed.
Archeology
Picture of a 70-meter killer whale in the Peruvian desert
Archaeologists found a giant geoglyph up to 70 meters long carved on a hillside in the desert in the remote Palpa region of southern Peru, according to Live Science.
Archeology
Discover the tooth 5 million years of giant killer whale
The 5-million-year-old tooth found on a beach in Australia is the first evidence that giant killer whales once lived outside the United States.
Archeology
Whale fossils are located in ancient killer whales
Egyptian scientists first discovered the complete fossil of a Basilosaurus whale 40 million years old, inside is another whale.
Animal world
Tracing whales - The mystery has no answer (Part 3)
The concept of extroverted whales, living in society for me seems like a paradox. Even for Mayoral, our instructor, was intrigued and rushed to the water column we saw t…
Animal world
Tracking whales - Court rulings and unknown things about whales (Part 2)
The public opinion somehow helped the quiet but bigger victory of environmentalists in forcing the nation's highest court to consider the state of whales in the context…