Orcas acted as primary scouts by actively seeking out baleen whales and alerting the whalers by breaching and slapping their tails at the mouth of the river. This 90-year alliance proves that Orcas ...

Orcas maintain a 0 percent fatality rate against humans despite being the ocean’s most capable predators. The 14 teeth per jaw side create a specific mechanical limitation during high-speed aquatic ...

First observed in the 1980s, the fad of orcas swimming around with dead salmon on their foreheads off Washington State seemed to have faded—until now. An orca from the southern resident population off ...

Ask anyone who’s had encounters with killer whales, and they will tell you just how smart they are. Orcas are incredibly intelligent creatures, capable of complex hunting strategies. They also engage ...

People love a tidy villain, so sharks get cast as the ocean’s hitmen, while orcas get treated like spooky geniuses with manners. Reality is less cinematic and more biological. Orcas are fully capable ...