Killer whales, also known as orcas, have officially made the Arctic Ocean their home — something that was nearly impossible until now. Historically, thick ice sheets blocked the whales from ...

Experts came to conclusions about the deaths of the beluga and narwhal whales. Scientists make alarming discovery after finding whales dead in icy waters first appeared on The Cool Down.

Animals trapped by Arctic ice often die, and they are prey for polar bears, killer whales, and for Arctic people. They are hunted by indigenous people of the north, and by commercial fisheries ...

Their backs and tall dorsal fins glistened in the Arctic twilight as they dived and surfaced and worked in teams to corral, stun, and devour silver herring. At times an orca would smack the ...

The gray whales make a remarkable 10,000-to-12,000-mile round trip migration from Alaska to their Mexican nurseries each year ...

Salmon were once a rare sighting in the Alaskan Arctic. But warming temperatures have made them more common up there, and ...

With much of it covered in ice all year round and with no daylight from October to March, the Arctic Ocean is one of the world's most remarkable oceans. It's home to a multitude of unique life ...

Together, Antarctica and the Arctic act as a giant thermostat ... through the eyes of killer whales. Killer whales - or orca - number hundreds of thousands worldwide. But in a remote network ...

She’s 14 years old, and her name means “mother of the sea” in Inuktitut, an indigenous language spoken in the Canadian Arctic. West Coast Bigg’s killer whales — also called Transients ...

It analyses the extraordinary 330,000 kilometers of marine surveys conducted by ORCA in 2023, recording 55,604 whales and dolphins in oceans worldwide from the Arctic to the Antarctic, the North ...