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 ...
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 ...
For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of orcas cooperatively hunting whale sharks, the largest species ...
The vast ice sheets that historically kept killer whales out of the Arctic Ocean are melting as the region rapidly warms. Two small, genetically distinct groups of killer whales now live in the ...
This is the first time marine scientists have documented a new hunting technique of killer whales. A group of orcas were ...
An especially popular killer whale put a dead fish on his head, in a throwback to a fashion last seen in the 1980s.
In the attacks, caught on video between 2018 and 2024, the orcas killed young whale sharks that gathered in the Gulf of ...
The method of hunting may imply that some orcas in the Gulf of California have acquired a special set of skills–like going ...