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 ...
Conservation helped stop most whale hunting. Now shipping kills them and little is done to avoid collision risk ...
A pod of killer whales has revived a curious trend from the 1980s in which they swim around with dead salmon balanced on ...
Whale sharks are gentle, filter-feeding giants, but orcas in Mexican waters were documented attacking the animals and ...
Orcas were previously seen sporting salmon on their heads in the late 1980s, but it’s not clear what the behavior means.
Follow one scientist in the search for one particular pack of killer whales, because for him, this mission is personal ...
For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of orcas cooperatively hunting whale sharks, the largest species ...
When Eastern Tropical Pacific killer whales visit San Diego waters via Mexico, it’s always exciting for observers. For ...
The method of hunting may imply that some orcas in the Gulf of California have acquired a special set of skills–like going ...
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 ...