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 ...

A female Southern Resident Killer Whale breaches in the calm blue waters of the Salish Sea between Washington State and British Columbia, Canada.© Monika Wieland Shields/Shutterstock.com A whale ...

CENTRAL COAST, CALIFORNIA -- The ocean just off the central California coast became a playground for a pod of orcas. Video taken by Monterey Bay Whale Watch videographer Evan Brodsky shows the orcas ...

The deaths of two young orcas in the Pacific Northwest have galvanized Washington state to do more to protect the whales' dwindling population, NBC News reported. First, a mother orca known as J35 ...

An orca was recently spotted swimming with a pod of dolphins off the coast of Massachusetts in a rare killer whale encounter caught on video. Donna Piraino, of the charter Go Girl Fish, was out ...