The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

Feb. 12, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. In Antarctica, killer whales hunt using their intelligence and teamwork. Swimming ...

Puget Sound was a global kelp capital for millennia. If we work together, we can enlist the next generation of ...

Discover 10 lesser-known facts about the blue whale, the largest animal on Earth. Learn about its diet, communication, ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

The team films something not seen before: an hours-long teaching session between adults and their young. Killer whales are one of only a handful of animals that actively teach their young, and it's ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

A welcome sight Thursday morning: Orcas in the Puget Sound. Experts say there’s one distinct thing people should know about ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...