Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth ...

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth ...

Researchers noted cookie-cutter shark marks on the whale's body, typical of deep-sea species and unrelated to its cause of death. Joy Reidenberg, ...

The cookie-cutter shark may be small, but it's considered dangerous due to its unique feeding habits. This shark, typically about 20 inches long, has a specialized set of teeth designed for ...

JUPITER — The depths of the Atlantic paid a visit to the beaches of Palm Beach County last week when an 8-foot whale washed up on the shore just south of Carlin Park.. A beachgoer spotted the ...

1. There are more than 500 species of sharks. They range in size from 8 inches to 40 feet long. 2. The cookie cutter shark grows to up to 22 inches.

“Offshore” killer whales, up to 6.6 metres long, patrol distant waters in pods of 100 to 200 individuals, hunting pelagic fishes like sharks. “Resident” killer whales, around 7 metres in ...

The team could also differentiate the population, dubbed the oceanics, from other known orcas due to scars or bite marks from the parasitic cookie-cutter shark, which only occur in the deep ocean.

Cookie cutter marks on a killer whale indicate that it spends significant time out in the open ocean - where the cookie cutter shark lives.

But the researchers saw another more obvious, less natural distinction: all but one of the 49 whales surveyed sported bite marks from cookie-cutter sharks. Those scars lend further credence to the ...

A group of killer whales spotted hunting off the coast of California and Oregon over two decades may actually be their own unique population of animals, a new study says. When the notorious black f… ...