An orca from a transient killer whale pod flipped the seal off the coast of Victoria on Vancouver Island on Sunday, October 25. Flipping the seal into the air with its tail sounds like fun but it wasn ...

Robert Pitman is a marine ecologist in southern California’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center and was the lead author of the study. Pitman and his ...

Humpback whales have been recorded traveling considerable distances to physically block killer whale attacks on seals and other marine mammals, according to a peer-reviewed study published in Marine ...