The orca is called the killer whale for a reason—and nothing demonstrates why quite like a recent scientific discovery about deadly encounters between orcas and young great white sharks. A pod of orca ...

Orcas in the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico have been spotted hunting young great white sharks by flipping them over to incapacitate them before eating their energy-filled liver, new ...

Orca moms teach their young how to pretend-drown each other, first-of-its-kind footage shows. The brutal training session teaches orcas the skills needed to kill the largest animal that has ever lived ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Southern resident orcas from the L Pod made a rare appearance near Depoe Bay on March 24. The sighting coincided with Oregon’s Whale Watch Week, hosted each year by Oregon ...

As the whale watching boat slowly approached, the passengers saw something strange in the water—an 80-foot cloud of red-brown liquid. Just minutes later, an orca hurled a small whale into the air.

SEATTLE — A wildlife photographer out on a whale watching trip in waters off Seattle captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering onto ...