Once thriving, there are now believed to be just 73 Southern Resident killer whales left in Washington state's Puget Sound.

Wild orcas across four continents have repeatedly floated fish and other prey to astonished swimmers and boaters, hinting that the ocean’s top predator likes to make friends. Researchers cataloged 34 ...

Scientists documented 34 remarkable cases of wild killer whales trying to give food to humans across four oceans over 20 ...

Researchers have identified a fascinating behavior in killer whales, aka orcas: they sometimes offer to share their prey with ...

Killer whales have been documented offering food provisions to humans swimming near them or in nearby boats. Learn more about ...

According to a May publication in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases, researchers at UH Mānoa and the College of Tropical ...

Off the Caribbean island of Dominica, Cecilia Vega dove into efforts to create a preserve to protect sperm whales and ...

As per a report in ABC, the killer whales chased and exhausted the pygmy whale before devouring it. At one point, over 30 orcas converged on the lone whale which struggled to escape.

An orca attack on a pygmy blue whale is witnessed by researchers and tourists onboard a whale-watching vessel off the WA coast. It is one of just a handful of documented killer whale attacks on a ...

New York Post captioned the video with, "Whale watchers caught a glimpse of what they believed was an albino pygmy killer whale while out swimming with its pod off the Hawaiian coast on March 28." ...

“Based on the shape of the fin and the white lips, I would say it’s a pygmy killer whale.” Experts said there has never been a sighting of a true albino whale of any species in Hawaii.