In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare won the Florida lottery and took home a $17 million lump sum. His friends and family remembered ...

blue whales and narwhals. Despite their name, killer whales — or orcas — are not whales. Instead, they are part of the closely related dolphin family. Many whale species were hunted for their ...

A massive gang of over 60 orcas was seen brutalizing an endangered pygmy blue whale off the coast of Western Australia by a ...

Orcas: Dolphins in Disguise Despite their name, orcas—often called "killer whales"—are the largest members of the dolphin family. These apex predators prey on a wide range of marine life ...

Animals trapped by Arctic ice often die, and they are prey for polar bears, killer whales, and for Arctic people. They are hunted by indigenous people of the north, and by commercial fisheries ...

The sighting of a baby killer whale in British Columbia has given researchers a sign of hope for the endangered species, ...

(CNN)-- SeaWorld will resume killer whale shows while the company and two ... in which inspectors will go to SeaWorld to gather facts. If they think any welfare-act violations contributed to ...

Could an enormous blue whale make a mistake and swallow a dolphin? Learn why it's not possible for blue whales to eat ...

In Antarctica, one orca population prefers penguins, while another likes minke whales. Other behaviors vary from group to group. Some resident killer whales in British Columbia frequent “rubbing ...

The Centre for Whale Research says one of its field biologists has spotted a new calf in a pod of endangered killer whales off British Columbia's southern coast. The Washington-based centre ...