An orca was recently spotted swimming with a pod of dolphins off the coast of Massachusetts in a rare killer whale encounter caught on video. Donna Piraino, of the charter Go Girl Fish, was out ...

For more than five years, killer whales have been ramming – and in some cases sinking – expensive yachts, sailboats and fishing boats in the crystalline waters off the coasts of Spain, Portugal, ...

Scientists filmed the way killer whales hunt together. These images show one of the animals turning toward the other after a tail slap delivers a shock to herring. Paolo Domenici et al., Current ...

When three killer whales struck the Lady L, Heath Samples thought a tanker had collided with his yacht, as everyone on board was knocked off their feet. After the orcas repeatedly buffeted the yacht, ...

The legendary killer whale known as “Old Thom” is back. A group on a tuna fishing expedition off Massachusetts over the weekend spotted the well-known orca — leading to plenty of excitement from the ...

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 ...

Hunting killer whales always eat the animals they kill, typically leaving behind only a few low-energy parts, such as fins. "Also, if it was just aggression, they wouldn't bother to tear off the fin," ...

Five Star Whale Watching, founded in 1985, said this week that it’s no longer offering tours to tourists and locals.