Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when ...

Researchers using a new drone say they have observed killer whales finding and modifying stalks of kelp to preen each other.

Southern resident killer whales have been caught on drone video crafting kelp tools to groom one another—an unprecedented ...

Other animals including some early humans, non-human primates, sea otters, elephants, and bird species are known to use ...

Killer whales have been filmed fashioning seaweed sticks to scratch each other’s backs in the first evidence of tool-making ...

Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known ...

A new study reveals killer whales fashion kelp into tools and use them to groom each other, a possible first for marine ...

The discovery — published June 23 in Current Biology — constitutes the “first evidence” recorded of tool-making by marine mammals. “ We were amazed when we first noticed this,” Michael Weiss, the ...

The Marine Corps has emphasized drone use as an important tool as new threats emerge in the worldwide drone race.

Orcas in the North Pacific have been seen "massaging" each other - rubbing pieces of kelp between their bodies. Using drones, ...