Image by Far Out Ocean Research Collective. A pod of false killer whales off the coast of New Zealand. False killer whales are a fascinating species that we still have much to learn about.

They identified it as a false killer whale, a type of oceanic dolphin that inhabits the deep sea. They took samples, including stomach and head tissues, to a laboratory for analysis to confirm ...

In 1927 Museum staff commandeered trains to transport 126 false killer whales from Scotland to South Kensington. It's not the most conventional cargo - but staff specialising in cetacean strandings ...

There was also just one sighting over the three surveys of a Sowerby’s beaked whale and a northern bottlenose whale, as well ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Some baleen whale species sing at frequencies below 100 hertz, making their calls undetectable to killer whales, which cannot hear such low frequencies. These ...

The carcass was found on the beach at Cape Bridgewater near Portland. Famously, killer whales have been documented at length targeting white sharks in South Africa, resulting in a mass exodus of ...