Despite their reputation as 'killer' whales, orcas are known to lend a helping fin by sharing their food with humans. A ...

Researchers have documented dozens of cases of orcas (Orcinus orca), also known as killer whales, dropping prey and other sea life in front of people. In almost all of the encounters, the orcas then ...

A study published in the journal Oceans details the remarkable chance encounter between a group of citizen scientists on a ...

A recent report reveals that wild orcas, Orcinus orca, also known as killer whales, sometimes offer food to humans, according to the report’s lead author, Jared Towers, executive director of Bay ...

Orcas (Orcinus orca) don’t appear to be big fans of yachts, but some of them may be curious about humans themselves. According to a study published on June 30 in the Journal of Comparative ...

Orca whales (Orcinus orca) are among the most fearsome apex predators in the ocean. When not preying on the largest fish on Earth, they’re attacking boats or going after the mighty great white ...

Orcas (Orcinus orca) can be found in oceans all over the world, including in the subtropical Gulf of California. Here, in places like Mexico’s La Ventana Bay, whale-watching is a popular attraction.

A neonate long-finned pilot whale surfaces in echelon position next to a killer whale (Photo by Filipa Samarra, for the paper: Interactions Between Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) and Neonate Long ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd ...

Photos show all-white orca off Japanese coast It’s not clear whether the orca is a true albino or its white coloring was caused by another medical condition.

Around the world, killer whales (Orcinus orca) have been observed preying on various shark species including white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) – as previously documented in California and ...

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are finding a new place to roam in the rapidly changing Arctic Ocean. Though Indigenous people in the region have seen the whales, also known as orcas, pop up ...