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 ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers say they can now spot those underwater baby bumps from the air and keep ...

Her dream is to collect the poop of a pack-ice killer whale, something never done before. The film team deploys drones to get an aerial perspective of the whales as well as gyro-stabilized lenses ...

Eba is trained to sniff out orca excrement. Despite orcas' large size, their poop isn't easy to find. Giles described it as "looking for a needle in a haystack when the entire haystack is moving ...

Click your choice to see results and speak your mind. Eba is trained to sniff out orca excrement. Despite orcas' large size, their poop isn't easy to find. Giles described it as "looking for a needle ...

Orca (Killer Whale) feeding in San Juan Islands ... In an interesting twist, whale poop is beneficial for the environment as it provides essential nutrients for marine plants, which in turn absorb ...

The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as ...

The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

The open-access study, the first to look at the forms of these trace metals in what’s commonly known as whale poop, was published in January in Communications Earth & Environment. “We made ...