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 ...
Credit: TikTok/marizipan A pod of killer whales shocked onlookers in Shetland by swimming up to the shore. The orcas were ...
A pod of killer whales has revived a curious trend from the 1980s in which they swim around with dead salmon balanced on ...
For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of orcas cooperatively hunting whale sharks, the largest species ...
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are finding a new place to roam in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean. Though Indigenous people ...
Conservation helped stop most whale hunting. Now shipping kills them and little is done to avoid collision risk ...
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 ...
An especially popular killer whale put a dead fish on his head, in a throwback to a fashion last seen in the 1980s.
The method of hunting may imply that some orcas in the Gulf of California have acquired a special set of skills–like going ...