Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

According to their results recently published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the culprit is clear: a killer whale ...

Staff at Captain Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Watching Safari spotted a group of killer whales swimming near Dana Point, ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water ...

DNA evidence has confirmed that killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver—marking the first recorded case ...

Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale predation on white sharks in Australia.

Scientists confirm that orcas and dolphins have lost the ability to return to dry land due to irreversible evolutionary ...

Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ashore near Portland in Victoria in ...

Over time, that name morphed into "killer whales." Scientists don't know whether orcas kill for fun. The marine mammals do some things, like killing and tossing dead porpoises in the air ...

Andrew Fox, Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions.For the first time, DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a ...

That legal precedent also applies to the killer whales, which are similarly protected as an endangered species ... Michael ...