making them prime targets for the killer whales. Related: Grandma Orca Whale Body Slams Great White Shark in Intense Ocean Battle — Watch! “It’s a big, big fish that is very slow compared ...

And one of the scientists is looking for one killer whale in particular. But their mission is not just to deepen our understanding of this extraordinary hunting behaviour. The team are also intent ...

How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9.8 meters ... together to form even larger groups of over 100 orcas. A female killer whale gives birth to one calf at a time every three to 10 years.

The pod of killer whales that showed up Thursday, Jan. 30, have only been documented less than 10 times since 1993.

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 ...

Behind me, I hear a rush of breath—the sound of a killer whale expelling air from their blowhole. I can’t turn around to look. I’m holding onto a metal crane, on the other end of which is a ...

Two Los Angeles-area boaters on Saturday spotted a juvenile gray whale that had recently been killed by orcas and was missing most of its head. Alisa Schulman-Janiger, director of the ACS-LA Gray ...

A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and stranded just off a beach in the island chain on Sunday, a local marine ...