Video captured at sea has shown a killer whale doing something scientists have only rarely been able to document: attacking a ...

Killer whales might pulverize sunfish to break them into smaller bites for young orcas — or they might just find it entertaining, researchers report July 23 in Frontiers in Ethology. “I was absolutely ...

On November 2, 2025, cameras captured the first-ever wild orca birth off Norway's Skjervøy coast, revealing a 15-minute ...

She watched as an orca held a sunfish by the tail while another orca swam toward the enormous fish and pummeled into it so fast that it smashed into smithereens. The impact was so violent that a ...

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in another sign of ...

A 10-ton orca was filmed repeatedly striking a boat and targeting its rudder, the one part capable of leaving the vessel unable to steer. Similar encounters have been reported hundreds of times since ...

Researchers have observed orcas in the Pacific Northwest carrying dead salmon on their heads, a behavior seen in 1987 and ...

Orcas are born with powerful bodies and sharp teeth, but they are not born knowing how to hunt. Here’s why they depend so heavily on learning, teaching and tradition. It’s tempting to assume that an ...

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Scientists captured video of orcas ramming into sunfish with such force that the fish exploded. The behavior may be for fun as well as for feeding, they report.