An orca calf less than 24 hours old has been spotted in a rare sighting of a newborn killer whale in Western Australia. The animals are regularly seen off Bremer Bay in summer, but calves are ...

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations ...

Pods often use their unique calls to communicate, but they can meet with other pods and sometimes come together to form even larger groups of over 100 orcas. A female killer whale gives birth to ...

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The carcass was found on the beach at Cape Bridgewater near Portland. Famously, killer whales have been documented at length targeting white sharks in South Africa, resulting in a mass exodus of ...

Cruel Jaws, Orca, and Dark Tide are among the worst shark and horror movies that ripped off Steven Spielberg's classic Jaws.

Imagine hearing a killer whale say "hello" or "bye-bye"—it sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie, but this phenomenon is backed by science. A 2018 study has revealed that orcas, one of the ocean's ...

Two Los Angeles-area boaters on Saturday spotted a juvenile gray whale that had recently been killed by orcas and was missing most of its head. Alisa Schulman-Janiger, director of the ACS-LA Gray ...

The documentary tells the story of the last southern resident killer whale held in captivity, and the efforts of two Lummi women to bring the orca home to a net pen sanctuary.

DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark ... one of which was characteristic of liver extraction by killer whale, similar to what has been observed in South ...

Imagine hearing a killer whale say "hello" or ... taken from a science fiction movie, but this phenomenon is scientifically-backed. A 2018 study showed that orcas are intelligent creatures ...