Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

An underwater photographer had a close call with a giant fin whale which almost swallowed him along with a mouthful of food.

Biologists discovered killer whales and dolphins working together to hunt salmon, a behavior never before documented in this ...

Katina, one of the killer whales at SeaWorld Orlando, has died. She was 50. ORLANDO, Fla. - SeaWorld Orlando announced Sunday ...

SeaWorld has announced the death of its famed killer whale, Katina. "Katina was 50 years old, and her health had begun to ...

SeaWorld Orlando announced that Katina, a killer whale in captivity for most of her 50 years, including 40 years at the ...

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Columnist Gerald Winegrad shares some of his most extraordinary, and sometimes perilous, wildlife encounters during his ...

Close calls with whales happen more often than you might expect. And although the people in these videos got away relatively ...

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically ...

UPDATE (10/9/25 10:30 a.m. ET): Kelly Ripa is just as excited about Mark Consuelos’ 9-1-1 role as he is. Consuelos will appear as tech mogul Tripp Houser on the first “few episodes” of 9-1-1 Season 9 ...

"9-1-1" fans, it looks like season nine is going to be out of this world. Literally. ABC dropped the trailer for the premiere. Mark Consuelos guest stars as CEO Tripp Hauser, who gets swallowed by a ...