Researchers examining 20 years of data on orca sightings have discovered a worrying trend linked to the receding ice, ...

Orcas, better known as killer whales, sit atop the aquatic food chain as one of the most lethal apex predators on Earth.

While well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica, much less is known about killer whales (Orcinus orca) in ...

The behavior could be the first-ever documented accounts of wild predators offering their food to people. In a nutshell Wild ...

These incidents, documented across four different oceans, saw orcas approaching humans on boats, in the water, and even standing on shore, offering a variety of items such as fish, mammals, birds, ...

A study published in the journal Current Biology describes a new example of tool use by a critically endangered population of ...

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

KILLER whales have been spotted giving gifts to humans in “extremely unusual” behaviour, baffled scientists say. Dozens of ...

To start a kelp-based grooming session, an orca places the bull kelp stipe on its face and nuzzles against another killer ...

Researchers analyzed 1,310 killer whale sightings spanning 40 years and, using species distribution modelling, pinpointed three key Australian habitats, the Bonney Upwelling (South Australia/Victoria) ...

J35, a southern resident killer whale also known as Tahlequah, carried her child's body on her head for 17 days across a distance of 1,000 miles in 2018, according to the Center for Whale Research.

Killer whales off Mexico have developed coordinated hunting skills to take down whale sharks, adding to their reputation as the ocean's top predator.