As scientists scramble to learn more about them, questions abound over what drove these mystery orcas into the Salish Sea, and what this could mean for the already-vulnerable local populations. There ...

In a viral video, a killer whale in an enclosure can be seen peering through the glass as a dad holds up his newborn for it to see Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has ...

Two groups of killer whales are engaging in a terrifying, bloody cannibalistic war beneath the ocean’s surface, where gangs ...

Earlier this week we shared footage showing an orca “punting” a seabird nearly 20 feet into the air in California’s Monterey Bay. While impressive, the scene was reminiscent of a more astonishing ...

In August 2022, a large, bloody fin covered in orca tooth marks washed up on a beach on Bering Island in eastern Russia. The same thing happened again a little more than a mile away in July 2024.

Many of the orcas captured and sent to marine theme parks in the 1960s and 1970s came from the Pacific Northwest. An incident 50 years ago this month changed that. A staffer in then-Washington ...

A stunning wildlife moment was caught on camera. It's the jaw-dropping image of jaws going from predator to prey as an orca takes down a great white shark. The video is of Sophia - a 60-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A video has gone viral on TikTok that makes it appear like an Orca trainer named "Jessica Radcliffe" was killed by a whale.

New research in the Strait of Gibraltar captured dozens of vocalizations from an endangered subpopulation of killer whales Getty Researchers recently recorded a range of vocal calls from endangered ...

A new orca calf has been born in the Pacific Northwest, and this baby boasts an impressive family tree. The orca calf belongs to a family of transient killer whales, or “Bigg’s” killer whales, and was ...