Great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are often unfairly the stuff of marine nightmares. But these infamously fearsome creatures are sometimes eaten by an animal even higher on the food ...

SeaWorld plans to spend upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars to build an expanded killer whale environment and programs to protect the creatures in the wild, the company announced Friday. This ...

A federal judge has awarded an environmental group more than $1.6 million for prevailing in a lawsuit against Endangered Species Act regulations for killer whales. In 2020, the Wild Fish Conservancy ...

Killer whales are known for their intelligence and power, even an inclination to sink yachts. Now, research is showing how they take down prey that few other animals can. Orcas in Mexico's Gulf of ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. -- SeaWorld announced on Friday that it plans to build a new first-of-its-kind killer whale environments that will double the size of the whales' tanks. The company will also provide ...

MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Russian rescuers returned a young female killer whale to the Sea of Okhotsk on Thursday after the orca beached in the far east, the emergency situations ministry said. Video ...

KITTY HAWK, N.C. — Researchers said they were in for a "wild surprise" last week when they spotted an unexpected orca off the coast of Kitty Hawk. The Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute’s ...

A pod of endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales were spotted off the coast of Monterey Bay, California. The whales rely on Chinook salmon as their primary food source, but salmon populations are ...

SEATTLE — The recent death of a J pod orca calf highlights the plight of the Southern Resident killer whales, which have struggled to increase their population after it reached the lowest level in ...

Members of the marine mammal rescue group Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder walk with a Pygmy killer whale that was found stranded off the beach at Long Key State Park in the Florida Keys on ...

After consulting with federal authorities, rescuers decided the most humane course of action was to euthanize the animal. Pygmy killer whales are shown in this photo from the National Oceanic and ...