A rare sighting of critically endangered southern resident killer whales off the Oregon coast offers a glimpse of a ...

An aerial survey team from the Florida-based Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute spotted the killer whale near ...

Jessica Farrer–a marine biologist who serves as Research Director at The Whale Museum, and part of the team of scientists working temporarily in Antarctica Peninsula, profiled in “Expedition Killer ...

According to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, an orca was spotted off the coast of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on March 15.

A pod of killer whales has revived a curious trend from the 1980s in which they swim around with dead salmon balanced on their heads. Scientists observed the whales exhibiting the unusual activity ...

A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. And the unusual spectacle was all caught ...

The study highlights that about 20% of the genetic makeup of southwestern Australian killer whales can be traced back to Antarctic ancestors, with gene flow occurring both historically and ...

We often consider the Amazon rainforest as being “the lungs of our planet”, but the ice sheets that crown this Earth are just as vital. The poles are essentially ...

Behind me, I hear a rush of breath—the sound of a killer whale expelling air from their blowhole. I can’t turn around to look. I’m holding onto a metal crane, on the other end of which is a ...

A rare pygmy killer whale was saved by rescuers after becoming stranded in Guyana, photos show. Photo from the University of Guyana A young pygmy killer whale — a rare type of dolphin — was ...

An international team of marine biologists have published research in Molecular Ecology that shows the benefits of gene flow between geographically distant and genetically different killer whale ...