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 ...

Whales the size of buses stopped shoreside commuter traffic in Sydney, Australia, making way for their so-called humpback ...

Commuter ferries held up as humpback whales migrate - The whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding areas ...

Sydney’s harbor becomes a humpback highway in winter as the whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding ...

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 ...

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

The discovery — published June 23 in Current Biology — constitutes the “first evidence” recorded of tool-making by marine mammals. “ We were amazed when we first noticed this,” Michael Weiss, the ...

Killer whales have been seen detaching lengths of seaweed and using them to massage each other—the first evidence of ...