If we were to list some of the most common animals, we might think of sharks, foxes, or dolphins. However, the world has ...

In the North Pacific, orca fins with signs of cannibalism are washing up on a Russian beach. The findings suggest that killer whales occasionally participate in cannibalism, which might explain why ...

Common names for animals are often easier to remember than their Latin names, but they can often lead to confusion. Here are ...

Scientists found evidence that killer whales may hunt and eat other killer whales, revealing new insights into how ...

Lynne Schafer Gross and Mark McDermott One day circa 1970, a boy in El Segundo looked up at a telephone pole near his home and saw a hawk perched at ...

Detached orca fins scored with distinctive tooth marks suggest that killer whale cannibalism is happening — and it might ...

Marine experts are baffled by a series of “bloodthirsty” seal attacks on common dolphins along the British coast. Specialists believe that this shocking behaviour could be limited to a single killer ...

Orcas are among the ocean’s top predators, yet there is only one well-documented attack on a human in the wild: in 1972, a surfer was bitten – probably because he was mistaken for a seal – but ...

KILLER whales have broken into an all out cannibalistic civil war, scientists believe. Biologists have warned of an all-out ...

Whether capturing them on film, containing them in amusement parks, or subjecting them to scientific experiments, our curiosity about whales and dolphins has compelled us to capture them out of the ...

Matthew I. Thompson receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. University of Regina provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. University of ...

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. — Biologists with the Center for Whale Research have documented a new Southern Resident killer whale calf traveling with L pod in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca. RELATED | ...