Anderson Cabot Center Senior Scientist Dr. John Durban uses drones to study right whales in Cape Cod Bay. How it works.

Orca attacks on boats are a recent, puzzling phenomenon.Proposed theories include play, stress, learned behaviour, or ...

3/4/25 - SOUTHERN RESIDENT KILLER WHALES IN MONTEREY BAY!We had an absolutely amazing day with K Pod and likely others today (thank you to Center for Whale Research for help with the IDs, as well as ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that have “baleen” in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales ...

When researcher Jared Towers set up his cameras underwater to observe a pair of killer whales, he saw something strange.One of the orcas, a juvenile female, “approached a camera I had in the water to ...

The sighting of a baby killer whale in British Columbia has given researchers a sign of hope for the endangered species. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, April 8, the Center for Whale Research announced ...

A new species of killer whale has been discovered off the southern coast of Chile. Researchers from San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography say the whales look distinctly different than orcas.

Learn more about the techniques a research team used to record the songs of the elusive beaked whale in Brazil.

A local celebrity recently surfaced for the first time this summer: Old Thom the Orca. Old Thom was spotted off Stellwagen Bank National Marine National Marine Sanctuary on Sunday about 20 miles east ...