Researchers have identified a fascinating behavior in killer whales, aka orcas: they sometimes offer to share their prey with ...

New Zealand has recorded more than 5,000 whale strandings since 1840. The largest pilot whale stranding was of an estimated 1,000 whales at the Chatham Islands in 1918, according to the Department ...

BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team looks at the leading points scorers in history for the British and Irish Lions ...

Killer whales have been documented offering food provisions to humans swimming near them or in nearby boats. Learn more about ...

A combined squad of Australian and New Zealand rugby players is set to face the British and Irish Lions on Saturday in ...

It is Australian sport's fiercest rivalry, but for more than 40 years, State of Origin has also stirred deep passions among ...

In recent times, there has been more rugby than you can point a stick at. Not that anyone is complaining. For example in ...

Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...

Killer whales have been caught on video breaking off pieces of seaweed to rub and groom each other, in what scientists say is the first evidence of marine mammals making their own tools. Humans are ...

A new interactive tool illuminates the fraught world of the whale, overlaying tracking data for seven species with hazards ...

In each of these cases, the killer whales approached the people on their own and dropped their prey in front of them. “This ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, scientists from Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico ...