According to a marine biologist who witnessed the battle, it was an extremely rare sight as these animals tend to leave each other alone.
“If it had barnacles, I would have been ripped apart.”
This odd ‘tail-up’ behavior is not just astounding to Moss and his TikTok fans. Scientists have wondered about it for decades now. Because a whale’s tail resembles a sail when it sticks up out of the ocean, the behavior is sometimes known as ‘tail sailing’.
Scores of local residents in Hermanus began harvesting the meat from a whale carcass as soon as the large animal washed up on the rocks.
Killer whales are clearly the psychopaths of the big blue.
Playing ‘Never Have I Ever’ must be fun with this guy.
Guests on board a whale-watching cruise are pinching themselves after being privileged enough to see a mommy whale give birth to her calf right by the boat’s edge.
The four-metre whale was first seen on Wednesday between Paris and the city of Rouen in Normandy with a few signs that it could be starving to death.
They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, so don’t write off sperm whale faeces until you understand the story of ambergris.
Phiomicetus anubis measured around three metres in length, and possessed strong jaws which enabled it to catch prey.
56-year-old Michael Packard is a very fortunate man, with an exceptionally rare story to tell.
The world’s largest creature, an Antarctic blue whale, was likely the victim of a recent ship strike that left it dead in Walvis Bay, Namibia.
Over the years, we’ve seen kayakers caught up in the midst of some very close encounters, but this might take the cake.
In a bizarre turn of events, a runaway train was miraculously caught by a conveniently placed sculpture.
I’m constantly amazed by animals and their ability to navigate travelling huge distances with pinpoint accuracy. That doesn’t mean things don’t go wrong from time to time.
18-year-old Payton Landaas was tracking a whale when he saw it swimming towards a dozen or so surfers off the coast of Southern California.
The disappearance of Cape Town’s great white shark population has been well documented, and now a new aerial survey shows some worrying whale numbers.
27-year-old wildlife photographer Chase Dekker can be pretty chuffed with the photos he snapped on July 22 in Monterey Bay, California, whilst out on a whale-watching cruise.
False Bay plays home to a number of visiting whales that come here to breed, as well as a resident population of Bryde’s whales and orcas. Now they’re under threat.
Yesterday, five fishermen were rescued off the coast of Lambert’s Bay after their boat, which struck a whale, suffered a crack to the hull.
Nobody has claimed the harness-wearing whale found off the coast of Norway, but one man thinks he might be able to shed more light on the mystery.
The harness-wearing beluga whale spotted by Norwegian fisherman could be a Russian weapon, and that’s not as far-fetched as you might think.
During a recent whale-watching expedition, a Port Elizabeth dive tour operator ended up getting far more up close and personal than he intended.
Kayakers paddling in Sea Point were greeted by an unexpected guest that popped up right next to them.
Most people are more than happy to have an up-close sighting of a few whales during a boat trip. This woman is not one of them.
After three Bryde’s whales washed up dead on the shores surrounding Mossel Bay, the Department of Environmental Affairs started looking for answers.
The drive past Llandudno is pretty easy on the eye, but if you happened to be winding your way somewhere yesterday morning you may have seen these guys.
Whales were plentiful at the Hermanus Whale Festival this past weekend, and Luke Maximo Bell was there to capture it all with his drone.
Spring has sprung, which means some of the most splendid oceans giants have made their way to our shores to put on some epic displays.
Called out on a whale rescue mission, the NSRI successfully detangled a large southern right whale before things could get out of hand.