The Ministry for Ecological Transition has opened an investigation after finding Toñi, the oldest orca in the Strait of ...

Aug 14 (Reuters) - Spain's Environment Ministry has ordered an investigation into the likely shooting of a rare Iberian orca ...

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 ...

In two incidents documented in Mexico’s Gulf of California, orcas worked together to blast sunfish into smithereens after they had killed the enormous animals ...

Marine biologists off of Baja California recorded one orca teeing up another to smash a sunfish into pieces. Scientists say there could be a reason for this behavior — or it could be just for ...

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 ...

Off the coast of northern Norway, a group of orcas hunts with a coordinated technique so specialized that no other pod on the planet has been filmed doing it. The strategy exploits fish instincts ...

A small, endangered pod of orcas off Spain and Portugal has sunk at least eight boats since 2020, and despite speculation, the real explanation might have nothing to do with revenge.

A killer whale has been found with suspected shotgun wounds off the Spanish coast. The rare Iberian orca known as Toñi was ...

While sightings like these are rare, it’s not impossible for orcas to have traveled this close to the Locks before.

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.