Off the Pacific coast of Canada, scientists have captured something that challenges long‑held assumptions about life in the ...

Beyond rising temperatures, the indirect effects of global warming, such as greater human activity in the region, add further ...

Across the world’s oceans, killer whales share the same striking black‑and‑white look yet live radically different lives.

In Patagonia, killer whales snatch seal lion pups from the shore. But as Steve Backshall recalls, these apex predators don’t ...

We begin on the frozen Arctic Ocean. It's the end of winter, and as the sun returns, two polar bears meet on the ice. Usually ...

With roughly 45 teeth, each up to 10cm long and 4cm wide, orcas are perfectly engineered for ripping and tearing prey. These ...

In 1987, wildlife veterinarian Mark Pokras was in his office at Tufts University in Massachusetts when a colleague from New ...

Amongst all the different killer whale populations around the world, there's only a couple that have been observed doing this ...

In the waters off British Columbia, an unusual partnership unfolds. Resident killer whales trail Pacific white-sided dolphins to hunt Chinook salmon, and may even share fish scraps with them, a new ...

A pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins off the coast of British Columbia have been observed cooperating with orcas, a traditional enemy that’s better known for taking out great white sharks than ...

"She thinks she's still trapped in captivity!" Lionsgate has debuted an official trailer for a very dumb new horror movie called Killer Whale, an Orca spin on the usual shark movie with all the same ...

Each year, thousands of the gray whales make an annual migration past Ventura, heading south from Arctic waters to the ...