Researchers have noticed a strangely sweet behavior among Icelandic orcas: the adoption of a baby whale from an entirely ...

All Amy Sutherland wanted was to drum up some publicity for her book. A Boston-based writer, she had spent a year observing the Exotic Animal Training and Management program at Moorpark College in ...

Ilona Skorobogatova shared scary footage from a sailing yacht in which a massive killer whale follows the vessel and ...

There have been increased calls for the French government to re-home two killer whales and 12 dolphins that were left behind ...

The whale's tail was very wild in the water ... Trainers have not been in the water training with killer whales for many years. We have extensive protocols and training in place to protect ...

For the first time, a camera about 50 feet away recorded a group of orcas closing in on a solitary prickly shark in deep ...

Bottom: Type D killer whale. Note the tiny eye patch, more rounded head, more narrow pointed dorsal fin. Could this be just a fish tale or a completely new orca species? Scientists with NOAA ...

Their tail strikes, the stunned and dead bodies ... “He’s not like other killer whales. He can’t hunt, and they care for him.” Instead of living with a single pod, Stumpy swims with ...

I knew that on a typical one-week cruise in Southeast Alaska I would likely encounter diminutive harbor porpoises, giant humpback whales, shoals of Pacific white-sided dolphins, killer whales and ...

Delphinidae is the family that includes all oceanic dolphin species. Orcas, also known as killer whales, are the largest dolphins and some of the world’s most powerful predators. All dolphins are ...