An orca held in captivity had a killer surprise for the crowd at SeaWorld San Antonio, some of whom may now be regretting their front-row seats. As seen in a viral video, the whale was swimming ...

The matriarch of this orca pod was seen flinging a dusky dolphin into the air during the hunt, with the rest of the pod sharing food, according to a paper in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.

Orca in Whangārei Harbour this week have delighted both experts and nature-lovers alike, putting on a display as they hunt down their favourite food: stingrays. Whangārei resident Kurt Coetzee ...

SEATTLE — A team of scientists captured a new orca whale calf alongside its mother in a stunning drone video, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries.

There’s no orca equivalent of Moby Dick, the great white whale. Many of us, though, do have an image of orcas, one informed by films of them performing in aquarium shows, such as those at ...

In a new paper published in Marine Mammal Science in May, John Jett and Jeffrey Ventre re-examined captive orca survivorship. Although they presented updated ASRs, they primarily worked with an ...

16, which is after the census date for this year. Orca K34 was last seen in July 2023 looking thin. He was at high risk without his mother, who had died in 2017. Mothers share their salmon catch ...

An orca has been born to the southern residents: L128, calf of a first-time, 31-year-old mom, L90. The baby is tiny, with clear fetal folds, making it probably about 3 days old. It was seen for ...

A study of orcas in the North Pacific has revealed that mothers make a "lifelong sacrifice" for their sons. Rearing a son significantly reduced a female killer whale's chance of reproducing in the ...

Why have orcas suddenly started ramming into sailing vessels? Orca mothers keep 5-tonne sons out of trouble "It's only a game. It isn't revenge [against boats], it isn't climate change ...

John Ford, a zoologist and renowned expert in orca acoustics, describes how orcas adapted to the ocean habitat. Watch the video above for the full story. Watch Listening to Orcas on The Nature of ...

In 1969, a four-year-old baby orca was separated from her family off the coast of British Columbia and sold into captivity. For the past 50 years, she’s lived in an “oceanarium” and ...