Wild orcas are not known to attack humans, but that’s partly because most humans are sensible enough not to jump into the water with the apex predators, and without regard for their own safety. The ...

dolphin family and a major draw at marine parks, orcas (also known as “killer whales”) are highly intelligent and social marine mammals that, because of these traits, have come to be known as ...

Boaters stumbled across an unusual sight off the coast of the Florida Keys on Saturday: a pod of orcas. Mike Slaughter and his friends found the orcas feasting on what appeared to be a shark. “At one ...

Boat captain Erica Page scanned the ocean’s surface, searching for any signs that killer whales were near. At times, the ocean was calm, the only sound coming from salt water rhythmically slapping the ...

Whale watchers on California's Central Coast were treated with a sighting of a very pale orca nicknamed Frosty. A video taken by Evan Brodsky of the Monterey Bay Whale Watch shows the white orca ...

Off the rugged coast of Iceland, an extraordinary and puzzling phenomenon has captured the attention of marine scientists. Over the past few years, baby pilot whales—tiny and vulnerable—have been ...

There are very few documented cases of orcas attacking humans in the wild, and these interactions are extremely rare and not well understood. True, you may have heard about whales ramming into boats ...

For eight hours, all they saw were dolphins and the spouts of humpback and gray whales. Then, the call went out.

You may not need to charter a whale-watching boat to get a sighting of a pod of orcas that has been traveling up and down the coast of Southern California for the past few months. Some lucky San Diego ...

Sometimes we all need a kelping hand – or fin. For the first time, orcas have been recorded making and using tools, fashioning pieces of kelp so that they can groom each other as they swim. The new ...