While orcas, also known as "killer whales," are a common sight in the northeast Pacific Ocean, they’re rarely detected in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, where little is understood about pods that swim ...

Experts speculate that orcas may be playing when they ram boats so hard they sink—a phenomenon that’s mostly been documented ...

Experts say the whales seem to learn to play with boats from a young age. "Believe me: if they wanted to sink the boats, they ...

Rather than attacking pleasure boats or eating seals, Old Thom spends his days swimming with Atlantic white sided dolphins. No one quite knows why. Orcinus orca, or killer whales, are more likely to ...

This visual guide explains the interactions that orcas, also known as killer whales, are having with ships and why scientists ...

KILLER whales have once again attacked boats off the coast of Spain, with two “rammings” happening just minutes apart. Both incidents, described by crew members as “very ...

A second endangered orca this year was seen carrying its dead newborn in Washington waters, highlighting the species' ongoing crisis.

THIS is the terrifying moment a pod of killer whales sinks a tourist yacht off the coast of Portugal in yet another dangerous ...

When researcher Jared Towers set up his cameras underwater to observe a pair of killer whales, he saw something strange.One of the orcas, a juvenile female, “approached a camera I had in the water to ...

Olaf Meynecke receives funding from the Whales and Climate Research Program through a private, charitable trust and is a board member of the not for profit organisation Humpbacks and Highrises Inc. As ...