Orcas, also called killer whales, are apex predators of the ocean. Their intelligence, hunting skills, and sheer power make ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The pod of orca whales that ... something called a “dolphin stampede,” where a group of dolphins all begin to bolt at high rates of speed to chase food or run ...

The team at Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder received a report of a stranded dolphin off the coast of Long Key State Park earlier this month.

What’s more, the identification of individuals of both species shows that the same false killer whales return to the area year after year and that many of the dolphins that associate with the ...

Members of the marine mammal rescue group Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder walk with a Pygmy killer whale that was found stranded off the beach at Long Key State Park in the Florida Keys on ...

New research shows that bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncates) use the ... Drone Footage Provides New Insight Into Gray Whales' Acrobatic Feeding Behavior Sep. 25, 2024 — Drone footage is ...

On a cold January day I was surrounded by hundreds of black-and-white killer whales—Orcinus orca, not a whale but rather the largest dolphin ... or fight them or chase them away.

Over time, that name morphed into "killer whales." Scientists don't know whether ... Orcas are the largest members of the dolphin family. Males are bigger than females, but they both vary in ...

But when scientists arrived, they found it was a 5.5-foot-long Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata), per a Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder news release. According to the group, he was a mal ...