As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for the second time in seven years, researcher Barbara J. King says there’s no ...

While fishing off the coast of Honduras in 2023, a group of anglers stumbled upon a rare sight: a pod of orcas hunting down a ...

It happened in October 2023 when a killer whale pod - which is a family group of orcas - launched a vicious attack on a Polish yacht while travelling in the Strait of Gibraltar. While orca attacks are ...

Known as the longest-lived marine mammals, they carry harpoon scars from historical commercial whaling ... (Balaena mysticetus), particularly juveniles and calves. These killer whale attacks typically ...

Known as the longest-lived marine mammals, they carry harpoon scars from historical commercial ... juveniles and calves. These killer whale attacks typically occur in Arctic and subarctic waters ...

The appearance of a new orca calf in Washington’s Puget Sound last month was cause for celebration. The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident ...

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Terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s New Orleans truck-ramming attack earlier this week killed 14 innocent revelers and injured more than 30 others, many whose lives are forever changed. The youngest ...

The fate of two killer whales is uncertain following the closure of a marine zoo in France on Sunday. Campaigners and the zoo's managers have been locked in disagreement about what should happen ...

It turns out that all I needed to do was head to Tromso in Norway, where the orca visit every winter to make the most of the plentiful fish supplies in the freezing waters off the surrounding islands.

A team of scientists and filmmakers heads to Antarctica to study the most sophisticated hunts in the animal kingdom - killer whales making waves to wash seals off floating ice. Show more In ...