Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale calves got there and what happened to them.

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

Killer whales are among the oceans’ top predators. But in Iceland, pilot whales have them running scared. Filipa Samarra This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and ...

An unusual encounter with a group of orcas near Iceland led researchers to discover a new and complex behaviour - they had taken in baby pilot whales, and not necessarily to eat them. Scientists ...

The trip was the first-ever record of a migration between the two countries. A pod of Orca whales has made an unprecedented trip from Iceland to Genoa, Italy, according to a nonprofit organization ...

Officials in Iceland embarked on a tedious overnight rescue effort after an orca became stranded near Reykjavík's Korpa golf course, which features views of the Atlantic Ocean. As detailed by Iceland ...