This shared activity, which was captured using drone footage, is notable because it is the first time scientists have observed orcas using tools for the benefit of mutual grooming. How much do you ...

In 1987, killer whales in Puget Sound donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads. Now, a photo of an orca has observers wondering if the trend has returned.

T-46, an orca active off the Pacific Northwest, is presumed dead. Public outcry over her pod's capture in 1976 led Washington State to ban killer whale captures.

Dubbed “Starboard” for his bent-to-the-right dorsal fin, this orca has been observed preying on white sharks in the area with its travel partner, “Port,” for years.

Within minutes, five orcas surrounded them, curiously circling the jet ski and boat for about half an hour. The pod included ...

Normally the orca pods here fished alone, but on this day humpbacks and fins were swimming among the orcas and eating the herring too. Around us dorsal fins of various shapes and hues broke the water.

Fin whales are the second-largest whale species, smaller only than blue whales. Fast swimmers that can eat two tons of food a day, they grow up to 85 feet long, weigh 40 to 80 tons and live for 80 ...

It was an orca-versus-dolphin matchup, and the dolphin didn’t stand a chance. In coastal waters near Chile in 2023, a massive female killer whale walloped the much smaller dolphin, sending it ...

Orca spotted 7 miles off the coast of Chatham by crew on ... Old Thom has a distinct nick on the back of his dorsal fin and is “the most commonly seen whale off of Massachusetts or New ...

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

THE “world’s loneliest orca” who has been trapped in a tiny pool for 32 years is experiencing the “worst form of torture”, experts claim. A devastating video shows Kshamenk barely able … ...

In 1987, killer whales in Puget Sound donned salmon “hats,” carrying dead fish on their heads. Now, a photo of an orca has observers wondering if the trend has returned.