Southern resident killer whales have been caught on drone video crafting kelp tools to groom one another—an unprecedented ...

The discovery — published June 23 in Current Biology — constitutes the “first evidence” recorded of tool-making by marine mammals. “ We were amazed when we first noticed this,” Michael Weiss, the ...

A study published in the journal Current Biology describes a new example of tool use by a critically endangered population of ...

Nature holds secrets to long life. Certain animals outlive humans by centuries. Rougheye rockfish lives over 200 years.

In a new study, Cartwright and a team of strandings specialists documented how a “companion whale” tries to help when an individual humpback whale gets entangled in fishing gear. 3:47 ...

And when they spot the whales, hunting crews set out on umiaks—long boats made of animal hide—in hopes of catching bowhead whales. YUYAN: I love being out. I'll like wake up at 10 p.m. and ...

Artifacts found at archeological sites in France and Spain along the Bay of Biscay shoreline show that humans have been ...