Animals can be a human’s best friend — or worst enemy. For every Free Willy, Old Yeller, Air Bud, or Beethoven, there are animal attack movies featuring everything from avian assaults (The Birds) and ...

When researcher Jared Towers set up his cameras underwater to observe a pair of killer whales, he saw something strange.

While well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica, much less is known about killer whales (Orcinus orca) in ...

In a baffling show of generosity, killer whales across the globe are giving fish to humans—and scientists are racing to ...

Michael Sterling, up from Florida, was happy to talk about how he rebuilt a 1964 lobster boat into the Orca replica for Jaws ...

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

Charlotte Rampling and Richard Harris are the heavy-hitting Oscar nominees facing off with a big plastic whale.

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its ...

Killer whales have been caught on video breaking off pieces of seaweed to rub and groom each other, scientists announced Monday, in what they said is the first evidence of marine mammals making ...

Researchers using a new drone say they have observed killer whales finding and modifying stalks of kelp to preen each other.

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