The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just like humans.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that have “baleen” in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales ...

Today, there are only 73 southern resident orcas left, fewer than when they were listed for protection, and their risk of extinction is accelerating.

The recent autopsy of a partially devoured great white shark confirms a brutal hunting trend—killer whales around the world are not afraid to attack the fearsome fish, especially when they get a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Some baleen whale species sing at frequencies below 100 hertz, making their calls undetectable to killer whales, which cannot hear such low frequencies. These ...

The carcass was found on the beach at Cape Bridgewater near Portland. Famously, killer whales have been documented at length targeting white sharks in South Africa, resulting in a mass exodus of ...

Puget Sound was a global kelp capital for millennia. If we work together, we can enlist the next generation of ...

DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver. Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ashore near ...