With roughly 45 teeth, each up to 10cm long and 4cm wide, orcas are perfectly engineered for ripping and tearing prey. These ...

A couple was shipwrecked when their yacht was surrounded and sunk by a group of whales off the coast of Costa Rica in 1989.

Off the Pacific coast of Canada, scientists have captured something that challenges long‑held assumptions about life in the ...

Sarah Fortune, an assistant professor in oceanography at Halifax’s Dalhousie University, said it would appear the massive ...

Each year, thousands of the gray whales make an annual migration past Ventura, heading south from Arctic waters to the ...

New footage shows orcas and dolphins coordinating hunts, hinting at interspecies teamwork to track and catch salmon off ...

Teamwork makes the dream work, apparently even for some of the most fearsome predators in the ocean. A team of scientists ...

Learn how differences in diet and behavior split orcas off northern Japan into resident and transient groups — and what their ...

The species Orcinus orca, generally known as orcas or killer whales, is made up of many genetically distinct populations ...

From sinking boats and feasting on shark livers to dining on whale tongue and tossing porpoises around for fun, orcas are ...

Cetaceans are among the most intelligent creatures in the ocean and many whales have used their big brains to develop cunning ...

Learn why killer whales sometimes wear dead salmon on their heads, and what that might mean.