SAN JUAN ISLAND, WASHINGTON – It’s an image you often see on paintings and wood carvings – a giant totemic killer whale, with the images of sea creatures and faces artistically contained within the ...

Killer whales are among the ocean’s most powerful predators. They can prey on stingrays, seals, porpoises, and even massive baleen whales. They are also known for disrupting great white sharks and ...

New research on the eastern North Pacific has revealed that the mammal-eating killer whales off the West Coast are not a single roaming population but two socially distinct communities that rarely, if ...

Marine biologists have documented a remarkable hunting strategy employed by killer whales in the southern Gulf of California, in which they harvest whale sharks' organs. Researchers in Mexico have ...