This is the heroic moment a beached orca whale was rescued in Crime. Footage shows authorities using heavy equipment to free the killer whale, which had become trapped in a shallow inlet in the Sea of ...

Killer whales hunt fish with clicks and buzzes—they choose and chase their prey with sound waves. But a mundane feature of ...

Controversies over what was best for Keiko raged for years, and now the story of the orca is being told again, in a new podcast, “The Good Whale,” from The New York Times and Serial ...

Beware if you’re in the poop zone! Tourists at SeaWorld San Antonio didn’t expect the orca splash zone to feature a wave of killer whale fecal matter. Audience member Alex Bermudez, who ...

Scientists Unearth Key Clues to Cuisine of Resident Killer Whales Sep. 19 ... most endangered large whale species worldwide, the North Atlantic right whale, using new data to help avoid right ...

Researchers captured Southern Resident killer whales on camera during an Oct. 29 outing. NMFS #27038/DFO SARA 388 Screengrab ...

MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Russian rescuers returned a young female killer whale to the Sea of Okhotsk on Thursday after the orca beached in the far east, the emergency situations ministry said.

A new study says persistent organic pollutants in waters off Canada’s East Coast are “dangerously high” for killer whales and ...

Here’s the scoop on what happens when two heavyweights of the animal kingdom—the killer whale and ... very specific circumstances these two species’ habitats can virtually overlap.