Just days after a pilot whale hunt took place near Tórshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, the remnants of the event had ...

Trump has committed to increasing U.S. energy production, particularly fossil fuels. He signed an executive order Monday ...

Orcas, often considered the apex predators of the ocean, are known to fear pilot whales,one of the ocean's most unexpected rivalries. This fascinating behavior raises the question: Why would these ...

Icelandic orcas have been including baby pilot whales in their groups – but scientists aren’t sure why Scientists have come up with several possible reasons for the unusual behaviour ...

A sick, starved pilot whale had to be euthanized after washing up on the beach in Sea Bright on Wednesday, officials said. The 15-foot, long-finned, male whale was first spotted struggling in the ...

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 ...

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale calves got there and what happened to them ...

Witnesses observed a long-finned pilot whale beached itself May 14 in Sea Bright. Response teams could not save it due to its weakened state.

Riley Grining was skippering a cruise around Tasmania's Macquarie Harbour on Sunday when he received a call to help stop a pod of pilot whales from stranding themselves on a beach.

Last Monday and Tuesday, those aboard the 7 Seas Whale Watch’s Privateer IV were greeted to a sight many captains and naturalists had not seen in more than 10 years: long-finned pilot whales ...

Pilot whales have always been joined at the hip. In fact, the tendency for a group of pilot whales to follow the direction of a group leader is exactly what earned them their name. Now, these nomadic ...

Pilot whales, like most toothed-whale species, form pods with extremely strong social cohesion. This means if one member of the group heads towards shore, the rest could follow, their herding instinct ...