Trowbridge and her Pacific Offshore Expeditions group spent the morning watching transient orcas feeding near the Channel ...

ALERT BAY, British Columbia — You’re floating in the ocean when a massive killer whale approaches and gently releases a piece of prey right in front of you, then waits to see what you’ll do. It might ...

For eight hours, all they saw were dolphins and the spouts of humpback and gray whales. Then, the call went out.

In the study, researchers from Canada, New Zealand and Mexico reported on 34 interactions spanning two decades in which orcas in the wild attempted to offer food to humans. The incidents took place in ...

Scientists believe that the kissing-like behavior likely reinforces "social bonds" between the animals Scientists have recorded the wild orcas engaging in "tongue-nibbling" — a social behavior similar ...

In the deep blue waters of the world’s oceans, some of the most intelligent and social creatures on Earth are engaging in behavior that challenges long-held assumptions about the divide between humans ...

Wikie, 23, and her son Keijo, 11, are the last two captive orcas in France left at closed Marineland Antibes where conditions ...

SEATTLE — The endangered killer whales of the Pacific Northwest live very different lives from orcas in captivity. They swim up to 100 miles (161 kilometers) a day in pursuit of salmon, instead of ...

Killer whales in aquariums regularly eat ice cubes, even though ice provides no calories or nutrients. It's a curious practice that has generated many questions because wild orcas never encounter ice ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive reveal how to survive an encounter with a killer whale by keeping distance and ...

Footage from Gone Whale Watching San Diego shows Fin the rescue dog getting close to two wild humpback whales while out with ...