Fins washing up in the North Pacific suggest that orcas from one subspecies are snacking on other orcas, and researchers ...

Orcas are renowned hunters. Now, they have surprised scientists with an unexpected twist — possibly getting help from dolphins. In the waters off British Columbia, marine ecologist Sarah Fortune and ...

For the first time ever, a unique cooperative hunting arrangement between dolphins and orcas has been documented. Researchers believe killer whales find salmon by tailing dolphins, who in turn benefit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pod of northern resident killer whales travels together. The same population of orcas was recently seen hunting with Pacific ...

Credit: University of British Columbia (A. Trites)/Dalhousie University (S. Fortune)/Hakai Institute (K. Holmes)/Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (X. Cheng) Nature can be brutal. But ...

Orcas and dolphins might hang out together off the coast of British Columbia to hunt for food as a team, new research suggests. University of British Columbia (A.Trites), Dalhousie University (S.

(CNN) — A pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins off the coast of British Columbia have been observed cooperating with orcas, a traditional enemy that’s better known for taking out great white sharks ...

Dolphins also have a habit of flinging octopuses. This has a practical benefit of killing the octopus before the dolphin tries to eat it, thus avoiding the danger of being choked by hundreds of ...