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 ...
Conservation helped stop most whale hunting. Now shipping kills them and little is done to avoid collision risk ...
Credit: TikTok/marizipan A pod of killer whales shocked onlookers in Shetland by swimming up to the shore. The orcas were ...
By Caroline Hemphill Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are finding a new place to roam in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean.
Orcas were previously seen sporting salmon on their heads in the late 1980s, but it’s not clear what the behavior means.
Researchers have documented killer whales working as a team to prey on whale sharks in the Gulf of California.
Whale sharks are gentle, filter-feeding giants, but orcas in Mexican waters were documented attacking the animals and ...
Researchers recently observed a killer whale (Orca) wearing dead salmon on their heads as hats, and believe it or not it's ...
A pod of killer whales has revived a curious trend from the 1980s in which they swim around with dead salmon balanced on ...
King salmon, or chinook, are a critical part of the diet of Southern Resident killer whales. The population of Southern ...
Follow one scientist in the search for one particular pack of killer whales, because for him, this mission is personal ...