With roughly 45 teeth, each up to 10cm long and 4cm wide, orcas are perfectly engineered for ripping and tearing prey. These ...

Orcas, or killer whales, are deadly and beautiful apex predators. After Trump attack, RTX decides that winning move is not to ...

New research reveals that orcas around the island of Hokkaido can be split into two distinct forms, offering conservationists ...

Follow a team of scientists and filmmakers in Antarctica studying the most sophisticated hunting strategy in the animal kingdom - killer whales making waves to wash seals off floating ice. In a remote ...

New research shows southern resident killer whales grooming each other using kelp they’ve modified, and researchers think it’s the first time researchers have documented marine mammals making tools.

A brush with kelp may help some killer whales clean up nicely. The killer whales’ grooming habit was among the first things Michael Weiss and colleagues saw using a new drone with “really intense” ...

Orcas off the west coast of North America are grooming each other with kelp, in a rare sighting of marine mammals manufacturing and using tools. For several years, scientists have been keenly ...

Whale watchers in Madeira captured the astonishing moment orcas took down the deep-diving marine mammal. The predatory behavior had never been documented in the region. A pygmy sperm whale was ...