Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale ...

Their striking black-and-white appearance and remarkable ... and a heartwarming beached orca rescue story. In a recent heartwarming incident, the NOAA team rescued a stranded orca.

Interestingly, each of these communities is characterized by its own unique set of behaviors, leading biologists to debate the idea of orca cultures ... on high-resolution black and white pictures ...

Males are bigger than females, but they both vary in size and weight. The largest orca ever recorded was a staggering 32 feet (9.8 meters) long and weighed 22,000 lbs. (10,000 kilograms).

Around the world, killer whales (Orcinus orca) have been observed preying on various shark species, including white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias)—as previously documented in California and ...

Around the world, killer whales (Orcinus orca) have been observed preying on various shark species including white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) -- as previously documented in California and ...

Passengers on an Island Packers boat off Ventura recently spotted a rare white orca known as Frosty. On Sunday, the boat happened upon a group of six orcas, also called killer whales, on the way to ...