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 about what ...

Off the rugged coast of Iceland, an extraordinary and puzzling phenomenon has captured the attention of marine scientists.

Later, a pod of orcas successfully wave washed it into the sea. Photograph by Tom Walker Only about a hundred of this special type of wave-washing killer whale are believed to exist. The ...

Australian authorities have confirmed that 67 of the 157 false killer whales stranded on a remote ... Black River Beach near Stanley, involving a pod of a similar size. The cause of the latest ...

A pod of killer whales sank a sailing yacht after pummelling it for almost an hour on Halloween in the latest in a spate of attacks in the Strait of Gibraltar. The Grazie Mamma, a mid-sized ...

An increase in sightings of a venomous snake have led to warnings being made to keep an eye out. There have been extra spots of the Common European viper, also known as an Adder, prompting experts ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

This list of stories includes a killer whale teaching session off British Columbia, a fin whale in Massachusetts performing a rarely seen high fluking dive and a sperm whale’s mysterious upriver ...