While many families spent Thanksgiving watching football in their living rooms, some lucky few spent it watching killer whales punt a sea lion 20 feet into the air in Monterey Bay. About 120 people ...

Whale watchers in Madeira captured the astonishing moment orcas took down the deep-diving marine mammal. The predatory ...

Expert trainer Dawn Brancheau, 40, was dragged underwater and drowned Wednesday. Feb. 25, 2010— -- The casual swing of a ponytail was likely what caused a killer whale in Orlando's SeaWorld to ...

Whale sharks are gentle, filter-feeding giants, but orcas in Mexican waters were documented attacking the animals and devouring their livers. By Jason Bittel Off Baja California in Mexico, a killer ...

The killer whales that roam the waters of the Monterey Submarine Canyon, off the coast of California, are brutal animals. When hunting grey whales, they target mother and calf pairs, chasing them ...

Female orcas, like their human counterparts, live decades beyond their reproductive years. Scientists are trying to untangle why. In doing so, researchers are aiming to uncover more clues to the ...

A pod of four transient killer whales — including a calf — was spotted Sunday, May 10, 2025, swimming out of the Yaquina River toward the ocean. It’s the latest in a steady stream of orca sightings ...

And you thought your job was bad. Trainers at a marine zoo in southern France say they have to manually sexually stimulate a male killer whale once a month to prevent him from inbreeding with his ...

A federal fishery agency reported last week that 10 killer whales were caught in the gear of trawl net vessels fishing this year in the Bering Sea and North Pacific waters off the Aleutian Islands.