“My legs were shaking as I photographed the white orcas I met for the first time,” Hayakawa wrote on Instagram.. “[It] looks like a golden-ish cream-colored orca synthesized into a blue sea ...

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 ...

A new orca whale calf spotted in Puget Sound in Washington State is the latest addition to a well-known family of killer whales with a connection to SeaWorld. In 1976, the calf’s great-grandmother ...

For most of the 20th century, scientists on the Pacific Coast of North America held two basic assumptions about the killer whale (Orcinus orca): first, it was a voracious predator inclined to attack ...

The episode, witnessed off the Australian coast, offers a rare glimpse into the brutal efficiency of the ocean’s top predator.

Photos posted by researchers show an orca closely following the shark and ultimately capturing it and splitting it in half. (A) A prickly shark with a bite from orcas; (B) Orcas swimming near a ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — A new orca calf spotted in the Puget Sound last week is part of the family of the last killer whale captured in United States waters. The new Bigg's, or mammal-hunting, orca calf was ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked ...

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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 permit that allowed them to capture the whales.