Great white sharks are among the ocean’s most formidable predators, yet researchers have documented that they will abandon ...

Toñi, the oldest known Iberian orca, surfaced in the Strait of Gibraltar with wounds conservationists believe were caused by shotgun pellets.

There have been numerous accounts in recent years of orcas ramming boats—and sometimes sinking them. Scientists believe this may be a form of culturally learned behavior passed down through ...

Underwater video captures the moment killer whales in the Gulf of California slam into a sunfish causing it to explode into smithereens. Researchers suspect the orcas are blowing up the fish to ...

In two incidents documented in Mexico’s Gulf of California, orcas worked together to blast sunfish into smithereens after they had killed the enormous animals ...

The post Orcas Have Taken Playing With Their Prey to New Level: Exploding Fish appeared first on A-Z Animals. Orcas along the Gulf of California have found new ways to "play" with their food. On July ...

Visitors at the Ballard Locks got quite a surprise Monday evening as multiple orcas were spotted navigating through the water.

Orcas will also work together to herd schools of fish into a “bait ball” then strike the group with their tails to stun them, and will block the blowholes of smaller whales to suffocate them. Experts ...

Orcas have a reputation for being the ocean’s smartest, meanest overachievers. They hunt in teams, teach their young, and sometimes wear salmon as hats. Then a researcher walks a beach in Russia and ...

The post Orcas Are Appearing off Northumberland — and No One Knows Why appeared first on A-Z Animals. For boat captains in the waters surrounding the Farne Islands off England's Northumberland coast, ...