Beavers are associated with activity and environmental engineering. If you are “as busy as a beaver,” you are getting things done. These aquatic rodents spend most of their time in the water as they ...

Orcas can hunt stingrays using brute-force surprise: a sudden, powerful tail slap can flip and stun a ray, leaving it temporarily helpless. Killer whales have an extremely broad diet: depending on the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American If you're going to have a tail that stretches ...

SEATTLE — With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orca whales put on a show near Seattle on Friday. The close encounter attracted dozens of people to the shore of the West Seattle neighborhood.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an “extremely rare” encounter, a fisherman was knocked unconscious when he was slapped in the face by the tail of a breaching ...

With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orca whales put on a show near Seattle on Friday. The close encounter attracted dozens of people to the shore of the West Seattle neighborhood. Whale watchers ...

Getting close to a stingray is risky, even for an accomplished predator such as an orca. They are not called stingrays for nothing! But if you can take them by surprise and stun them with a brutal ...

In an “extremely rare” encounter, a fisherman was knocked unconscious when he was slapped in the face by the tail of a breaching whale. The incident occurred Sunday morning less than a mile off Tweed ...