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Heartbreaking footage shows whale with severely broken back struggling to swim
A fin whale with a deformed spine was recently spotted struggling to swim off the coast of Spain. Its back was likely broken during a vessel strike, experts say.
2 orcas slaughter 19 sharks in a single day in South Africa, eating their livers and leaving them to rot
An orca killing spree continues in South Africa. Their target: shark livers.
Orca appears to adopt (or abduct) a baby pilot whale
Researchers have recorded an orca swimming with a pilot whale calf in a possible interspecies adoption, but how the two came together is a mystery.
Watch footage of 1,000 baleen whales in record-breaking feeding frenzy in Antarctica
Cruise ship passengers near Antarctica witnessed the massive group, which mainly consisted of fin whales, feeding on an overabundance of krill in 2022.
Terrifying sea monster 'hafgufa' described in medieval Norse manuscripts is actually a whale
Scientists in Australia think that a sea monster in 13th-century Norse manuscripts was actually an accurate description of a whale using trap feeding.
Orca males are burnouts who let their moms do all the hunting, surprising study finds
Mama orcas are forgoing having more young and instead dote on their existing sons.
Extremely rare gray whale birth captured on camera, possibly for the first time
A lucky group of whale watchers recently watched a gray whale calf being birthed off the coast of California. It could be the first time that this incredible phenomenon has ever been caught on camera.
Weird 'alien' sacks wash up on UK beach, most likely a whale's stomach
A dog-walker recently stumbled across a bizarre, white "fleshy lump" on a beach in Cornwall, England. Experts think that the unusual object is actually part of a whale's stomach.
