Scientists documented 34 remarkable cases of wild killer whales trying to give food to humans across four oceans over 20 ...

Like a proud cat leaving a bird on its owner's doorstep, orcas—also called killer whales—may sometimes offer to share their ...

Whales travel through the ocean, lunging, leaping, and playing, with grace and swiftness that belie their huge size. The ...

Researchers focused on the Salish Sea have made an intriguing discovery about Orcas. These whales, which have continually ...

Killer whales bring back wearing salmon hats, but it’s not for fashion. Two orcas from the Pacific Northwest were spotted with dead salmon on their heads, an act first documented in the 1980s.

Killer whales are known for their intelligence and power, even an inclination to sink yachts. Now, research is showing how they take down prey that few other animals can. Why it matters: The ...

Orcas Sleep With Just One-Half of Their Brain at a Time. ... killer whales have been sinking yachts, but it's hard to deny that it is indeed badass after all the harm humans have caused the species.

It has even been found that for the first month after birth, in killer whales and bottlenose dolphins, the mothers and calves will forgo sleep for a month and keep mobile 24 hours a day.

7) A POD of killer whales sleep by forming a tight circle and ­synchronising their breathing and ­movements. They take breaths together then ­submerge before resurfacing a while later.

In 1992, a colleague had returned from a fishing trip in Baja with a story about seeing two killer whales attacking a whale shark. But Ms. Schulman-Janiger was never able to confirm the event.

I’m to sleep there while the nine-year-old stays with her mother in Seville. ... “Killer whales orchestrating revenge attacks on boats,” wrote the New York Post in 2020.

Then three killer whales’ heads appear, bobbing up and down. The orcas are hunting. On this sheet of sea ice, the nearly thousand-pound seal would be unreachable for most marine predators.