Orcas, or killer whales, are deadly and beautiful apex predators.

And the San Diego park plans to begin construction this year on a new orca habitat, called Blue World ... She is, he says, as close as you can get to a killer whale in dog form.

What is known is that they have a relatively stable supply of deep-swimming cartilaginous fish — such as sharks or rays — ...

NOAA Fisheries has been tracking the two whales since they entered the Gulf of Mexico in February. NOAA photo The mysterious saga of two “out-of-habitat” whales has taken another strange turn ...

Using underwater explosives, planes and power boats, they corralled the killer whales into a net, in hopes of taking them into captivity to entertain guests at marine parks. The men had a federal ...

The Centre for Whale Research says one of its field biologists has spotted a new calf in a pod of endangered killer whales off British Columbia's southern coast. The Washington-based centre ...

Experts believe they got the name “killer whale,” not for hunting humans, but when ancient sailors saw them hunting large whales. Orcas are carnivores and eat a large variety of marine animals ...

The orca calf belongs to a family of transient killer whales, or “Bigg’s” killer whales, and was first spotted in the Salish Sea on Thursday, March 20, between Port Townsend and the San Juan ...