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 ...
Whale sharks are gentle, filter-feeding giants, but orcas in Mexican waters were documented attacking the animals and ...
By Caroline Hemphill Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are finding a new place to roam in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean.
When Eastern Tropical Pacific killer whales visit San Diego waters via Mexico, it’s always exciting for observers. For ...
Conservation helped stop most whale hunting. Now shipping kills them and little is done to avoid collision risk ...
Follow one scientist in the search for one particular pack of killer whales, because for him, this mission is personal ...
A few months earlier, researchers reported the first instance of a lone killer whale hunting and eating a great white shark ...
For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of orcas cooperatively hunting whale sharks, the largest species ...
This is the first time marine scientists have documented a new hunting technique of killer whales. A group of orcas were ...
In the attacks, caught on video between 2018 and 2024, the orcas killed young whale sharks that gathered in the Gulf of ...
An especially popular killer whale put a dead fish on his head, in a throwback to a fashion last seen in the 1980s.