Beautiful, but sadly the 'absolute celebrity rock stars and icons of the orca world' are the last pair of their family ...

"What we see is that it was an active hunter, which tells us a lot about how we can compare it, for example, to modern-day ...

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

"It was a mosasaur with short jaws, with conical and very robust teeth, allowing it to attack large prey." ...

When somebody gets the thrill of seeing an orca in northwest waters, that whale is almost always well known. Scientists have probably given it a number and documented its family tree, perhaps even its ...

A blue whale skeleton found in Oregon is being reconstructed for display at Newport's Hatfield Marine Science Center.

"It was the top predator; that was its place in the food chain. There was none bigger or more dangerous than it." ...

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National security has never been used to call a meeting of the "God Squad." But other federal agencies have been citing the ...

The "God Squad" voted unanimously to remove protections for Gulf animals, for "security." It's not the first time federal ...

A skull found 25 years ago in northern Mexico has led to the definition of a new species of marine reptile, scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orcas acted as primary scouts by actively seeking out baleen whales and alerting the whalers by breaching and slapping their tails ...