Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers discovered that Northern resident killer whales hunt by going silent and eavesdropping on dolphin echolocation to ...

A project born in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has produced a new method that lets scientists sort through and classify millions of dolphin sounds more rapidly than ever before.

Some Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Western Australia use sea sponges as tools to protect their snouts while hunting hidden prey, a behavior known as “sponging.” Sponging occurs only ...

When researchers from the University of British Columbia set out to film the solitary hunting habits of Northern resident killer whales, they expected to see quiet and solitary predators at work.

Researchers discovered that Northern resident killer whales hunt by going silent and eavesdropping on dolphin echolocation to locate prey. Dolphins act as long-range scouts while orcas deliver the ...