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Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, is famous for being the site of the Wright Brothers' first airplane flights in 1903.

Learn what happens during killer whale attacks and how to potentially survive them.

As Arctic ice recedes, orca whales have expanded their hunting grounds, leading to dead beluga and narwhal whales in Northern ...

One recent photo made waves in the local whale community. On March 21, Rausch heard that some Bigg’s killer whales – also known as transient orcas – were feasting on a Steller sea lion near ...

Orcas are toothed whales and are closely related to narwhals and belugas, sperm whales, beaked whales, dolphins, and porpoises. They are massive, and male orcas can weigh up to 22,000 pounds.

Divers in Moorea, French Polynesia, had a close encounter with a whale shortly after it was seen breaching, footage published to Instagram shows. The backstory: This footage was captured by diver ...

A group of nine critically endangered killer whales got a lot of attention off the coast near Depoe Bay, but it’s uncertain of they’re the same pod reported two days later near the Umpqua ...

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 ...

“Based on the shape of the fin and the white lips, I would say it’s a pygmy killer whale.” Experts said there has never been a sighting of a true albino whale of any species in Hawai ...

Whale watchers caught a glimpse of what they believed was an albino pygmy killer whale while out swimming with its pod off the Hawaiian coast on March 28. Travis Woo, who is a safety swimmer for a ...