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Whale sighting in Australia hints at 'extremely unusual' interspecies adoption
By Harry Baker last updated
An adult southern right whale was recently spotted swimming alongside a humpback whale calf. Experts think the larger whale may have adopted the juvenile after it lost its real mother.
A blue whale's daily intake of microplastics weighs as much as a small person
By Harry Baker published
Researchers estimate that blue whales may each consume up to 10 million pieces of microplastic every day during their main feeding season as they chow down on plastic-filled prey.
Grisly new footage shows orcas attacking a great white shark and eating its liver
By Brandon Specktor last updated
Newly released video shows a gang of killer whales in South Africa attack and slaughter a great white shark.
Orcas: Facts about killer whales
By Alina Bradford, Patrick Pester last updated
reference Orcas, or killer whales, are the largest of the dolphin family.
Newfound whale species that lives exclusively in US waters may already be on the brink of extinction
By Harry Baker published
A group of more than 100 international researchers has signed an open letter to the Biden administration calling for urgent action to save Rice's whale from extinction.
A Parasite Spread by Cat Poop Is Infecting (and Probably Killing) Whales in Canada
By Brandon Specktor last updated
Fifteen of 34 dead beluga whales tested positive for a potentially lethal cat-poop parasite.
Orcas and humpbacks clash in a violent melee of breaching and biting
By Harry Baker last updated
Whale watchers in British Columbia recently witnessed an intense showdown between a group of 15 transient killer whales and a pair of female humpback whales in the Salish Sea.
230 pilot whales beached in Tasmania — exactly 2 years after the area's last mass stranding
By Nicoletta Lanese published
Two mass strandings have occurred in the same region of Tasmania.
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