Two orcas from the Pacific Northwest were spotted with dead salmon on their heads, an act first documented in the 1980s.
In 1987, killer whales in Puget Sound donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads. Now, a photo of an orca has ...
Interestingly, while the lipid-rich livers are thought to be the primary target of these attacks, there was no photographic ...
Whale sharks are gentle, filter-feeding giants, but orcas in Mexican waters were documented attacking the animals and ...
Credit: TikTok/marizipan A pod of killer whales shocked onlookers in Shetland by swimming up to the shore. The orcas were ...
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are finding a new place to roam in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean. Though Indigenous people ...
Researchers have documented killer whales working as a team to prey on whale sharks in the Gulf of California.
King salmon, or chinook, are a critical part of the diet of Southern Resident killer whales. The population of Southern ...
A pod of killer whales has revived a curious trend from the 1980s in which they swim around with dead salmon balanced on ...
Follow one scientist in the search for one particular pack of killer whales, because for him, this mission is personal ...
Conservation helped stop most whale hunting. Now shipping kills them and little is done to avoid collision risk ...
Researchers recently observed a killer whale (Orca) wearing dead salmon on their heads as hats, and believe it or not it's ...