Cultural evolution is distinct from genetic evolution ... However, it's likely too soon to know if the orca behavior is spreading or if it's more than a fad. Barrett-Lennard said the behavior ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, mammals that once roamed on land began slipping back into the sea. The descendants of those pioneering animals include today’s dolphins and orcas—highly adapted marine ...

The latest reported incident could be evidence that this behavior is here to stay, and that it's spreading to other orca pods thanks to cultural evolution. A "cultural trap" happens when a ...

two adult killer whales may have started teaching juveniles how to approach boats to disable their rudders — which seems to track with Kriz’s observation about the evolution of the behavior ...

This was the first-ever documented case of orca-on-blue-whale predation ... or a population" — but only over thousands of years of evolution, McInnes told Live Science. But orcas are fast ...

An orca who made headlines in 2018 after she carried her dead calf on her head for more than two weeks and a distance of 1,000 miles has given birth again, according to the Center for Whale Research.

New research from the Museums Victoria Research Institute has turned upside down our previous understanding of the evolution of the largest animals ever––baleen whales. Until now, it was ...