One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

Up to 250 pilot whales have been killed as part of an annual hunt in the Faroe Islands, prompting calls from anti-whaling activists for the barbaric practice to be stopped. Images taken by the Sea ...

Only 50 whales have been saved. Nearly 400 pilot whales have died after they became stranded off the coast of Australia, wildlife officials announced Wednesday. The whales began piling up off ...

In the deep, dark waters off the Hawaiian islands, a team of researchers embarked on a mission to uncover the dietary habits of the short-finned pilot whale. Their goal was to determine the daily ...

Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales are surprisingly voracious hunters, diving hundreds of meters beneath the Pacific to snatch squid in the dark. By tagging and tracking eight whales, researchers ...

Here’s some important life advice: do not try to challenge a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) to a squid-eating contest. Research out today shows that these marine mammals can ...