The “phenomenal” incident took place off Bremer Bay, a town located near Perth, on April 7, according to a news release from Whale Watch Western Australia, a tour boat company. During the afternoon, ...

A yacht navigating the Strait of Gibraltar recently sank after a pod of orcas launched a dramatic attack, marking the latest incident in a series of troubling encounters with these killer whales.

Activists sued the federal government Thursday to release images of dead orca whales, sea lions and other marine mammals entangled by commercial fishing boats off the U.S. West Coast.

Seven vessels have sunk due to the orcas’ actions. (See AWI Quarterly, winter 2023.) Despite the serious damage it can do to boats, this behavior appears to be play from the orcas’ point of view; the ...

Orcas have a language of their own ... and a team of researchers drive around the islands in an inflatable boat looking for action. When they spot whales, they slowly approach, then turn off ...

She heard that biologists were starting orca safaris in Norway and volunteered to work on their boats. On her first day a male orca’s tall dorsal fin pierced the water beside the rubber dinghy ...

True, you may have heard about whales ramming into boats recently ... Off the coast of New Zealand, orcas even know how to flip great white sharks upside down, putting the sharks into a paralyzed ...

A family was left in awe when they encountered orcas during a boat trip near a popular holiday destination for Brits. A TikTok video captured the breathtaking moment killer whales swam up close to ...

This was the first time since 2021 that two white orcas had been seen at the same time, sources said. However, one was spotted in the waters off Rausu last year. The ship's captain, Masato ...