Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the ...

Researchers have noticed a strangely sweet behavior among Icelandic orcas: the adoption of a baby whale from an entirely ...

Over the past few years, baby pilot whales—tiny and vulnerable—have been spotted swimming alongside pods of powerful orcas.

But the researchers, led by Cherine Baumgartner, stressed they had not seen the beginning or end of the interactions, and more close observation would be needed to unpick what exactly was ...

An unusual encounter with a group of orcas near Iceland led researchers to discover a new and complex behaviour - they had ...