Welcome to another installment of It Doesn’t Have To Be Paranormal To Be Weird. Apparently there are some very specific traits used by scientists to assess personality, and some weirdo decided it would be a good idea to apply those personality measurements to Orcas. (No lie, that’s the person we want to hang with at […]

In video footage, shot at Porirua in Wellington, New Zealand, a fisherman and a friend are seen enjoying a day on the water before spotting the group of orcas.

Twenty-eight whales were found dead in the remote southeast of Australia Wednesday, following a mass stranding that has baffled experts. A pilot flying a private plane over Croajingolong National Park in Victoria state spotted 27 pilot whales and one humpback stranded on the beach Tuesday afternoon. The humpback whale is thought to have died well […]

We all like mysteries, but it also feels good to crack them once in a while. Here are three recent examples. First: An ancient Greco-Roman poem tells of brave fishermen who harpooned a “sea monster.” But the latest evidence is that it wasn’t really a sea monster, but a whale. Second: A Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Papyrus […]

Ever been visited by a whale during a near-death experience? It’s not so outlandish should you share a heritage with the tundra’s indigines. The relationship twixt whales and the Inuit goes very far back, and becomes quite intimate, illustrating a nigh-supernatural connection between species worthy of Krista Langlois’s pen. We’re pretty sure a skywhale wasn’t […]

The winter calving season for critically endangered right whales is ending without a single newborn being spotted off the southeast U.S. coast, a reproductive drought unseen for three decades that experts …

As if the world’s whales don’t have enough to contend with, it seems they get thrown off course when the Aurora Borealis flares up and causes them to head for the beach, according to Dr. Klaus Vanselow. NASA is also on the case and is due to publish its findings on how “a whole range […]

A pod of killer whales appears to charge at blue whale off the coast of Monterey, California, in a rare encounter captured by a drone camera on May 18.

A couple of boaters found themselves directly in the middle of a pod of orca whales hunting a sea lion off of the coast of Bowyer Island in British Columbia, Canada.  According to Viral Hog, the man filming the incident spotted a few whale watching boats and went to go check out the action. After […]

A total of 650 of the animals swim aground in New Zealand in two days, devastating volunteers trying to rescue them.