Orcas in the Gulf of California off the coast of Mexico have been spotted hunting young great white sharks by flipping them over to incapacitate them before eating their energy-filled liver, new ...

The team films something not seen before: an hours-long teaching session between adults and their young. Killer whales are one of only a handful of animals that actively teach their young, and it’s ...

A Southern Resident killer whale has been spotted clinging to her dead baby in the Salish Sea off northern Washington, a conservation group said. J-36, also known as Alki, was seen Sept. 12 in the ...

Lauren Eckert has previously been affiliated with Raincoast Conservation Foundation. This research was supported by a Canada Vanier Graduate Scholarship and a Raincoast Conservation Fellowship.

No, the TikTok video showing a trainer named Jessica Radcliffe dying in the mouth of an orca killer whale is not real. It appears to be AI. However, there was a real marine trainer who died after an ...

The AI video did appear to take inspiration from two real life orca killings: Alexis Martínez’s 2009 death and Dawn Brancheau’s death in 2010. Martínez, 29, was an orca trainer at Loro Parque on the ...

Grabbing a meal with a friend is way better than dining solo — and killer whales agree. The whales prefer to hunt for herring in pairs, researchers report July 3 in Current Biology. These cetaceans ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment will launch a new killer-whale show next spring in its three U.S. marine parks, as it attempts to move beyond the February death of a trainer that has ...

Killer whales have joined the rare club of animals that can make and use tools, for the first time being observed crafting a kind of brush out of kelp and then using it on fellow pod members. The feat ...