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Four ways dolphins are amazing – and one way they’re not

28 June 2018

We certainly click with dolphins, but they are also otherworldly creatures with a suite of senses divergent from our own. Here’s our top 5 facts about them

Inside the secret military programme that uses dolphins as weapons

27 June 2018

In the 1950s, the US navy thought dolphins would be good templates for torpedo design. But they ended up using them for a very different purpose

Sperm whales are tracking fishing boats and stealing their fish

8 June 2018

Fishing boats in the Gulf of Alaska are being stalked by enormous sperm whales, which charge in and rip huge volumes of fish from the lines

The most elusive whales reveal their secrets in their wakes

5 June 2018

We know almost nothing about the enormous beaked whales because they spend so much time deep underwater, but a new DNA technique could unmask them

Drone captures humpback whales catching krill with bubbles

14 February 2018

It’s the climax of a sophisticated technique called bubble-net hunting – the trapping of krill using columns of bubbles that the whales exhale via their blowholes

Wikie a killer whale, swims with her calf in Marineland aquatic park

‘Speaking’ orca is further proof they shouldn’t be kept captive

31 January 2018

An orca called Wikie who learned to mimic human speech could teach us a lot about killer whale culture – but that’s no reason to keep orcas in captivity