A routine whale watching tour has taken a dark and rare turn as a pod of orcas showed why they’re called killer whales.

Many of the orcas captured and sent to marine theme parks in the 1960s and 1970s came from the Pacific Northwest. An incident 50 years ago this month changed that. A staffer in then-Washington ...

Researchers have captured extraordinary footage of sperm whales randomly headbutting each other, confirming anecdotal reports from mariners and whalers in the 18th and 19th centuries.

One skin will eventually no longer fit, but there is an odd moment where we must coexist with our old and new selves. To be a ...

The rule change would increase the distance boats must keep from the endangered orcas to 1,000 metres from the current 400.

Orcas, or killer whales, are deadly and beautiful apex predators.

Cetaceans can be split into two main types: baleen whales (which have a sieve-like structure within their mouth to catch tiny ...

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: The footage shows several orcas taking turns with the carcass, highlighting their cooperative ...

Researcher Imran Samad’s new short film on the endangered Indian Ocean humpback dolphins of Goa draws attention to these intelligent, highly social animals ...

A career con artist who once sold a stranger’s mansion and went on the run has allegedly struck again – this time romancing a ...

After a 7-ton meteor flew across Ohio on Tuesday, some might be wondering just how big is that? Here are few things to help compare the size.

For over five decades it terrorized the waters off Constantinople. It sunk ships, killed sailors and installed fear in those ...