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 ...
A ferry captain captured the stunning moment a family of killer whales, or orcas, came within 10 feet of the boat in downtown ...
Orcas were previously seen sporting salmon on their heads in the late 1980s, but it’s not clear what the behavior means.
Whale sharks are gentle, filter-feeding giants, but orcas in Mexican waters were documented attacking the animals and ...
A few months earlier, researchers reported the first instance of a lone killer whale hunting and eating a great white shark ...
Conservation helped stop most whale hunting. Now shipping kills them and little is done to avoid collision risk ...
Interestingly, while the lipid-rich livers are thought to be the primary target of these attacks, there was no photographic ...
Credit: TikTok/marizipan A pod of killer whales shocked onlookers in Shetland by swimming up to the shore. The orcas were ...
King salmon, or chinook, are a critical part of the diet of Southern Resident killer whales. The population of Southern ...
Researchers have documented killer whales working as a team to prey on whale sharks in the Gulf of California.
A pod of killer whales has revived a curious trend from the 1980s in which they swim around with dead salmon balanced on ...