Marine biologists off of Baja California recorded one orca teeing up another to smash a sunfish into pieces. Scientists say ...

Is it just the apex ocean predators having some fun? The post Killer whales caught on camera ramming huge fish until it ...

In the footage, marine biologist Dr Kathryn Ayres, a scientist at Beneath The Waves, in the Gulf of California, watches as a female orca holds onto the tail fin of a recently killed sunfish. The ...

In many ways, the sunfish could not have been better-designed as an orca’s chew toy. The largest species, the oceanic sunfish Mola mola, can grow up to 10 feet long and weigh up to 6,000 pounds. And ...

The ramming behavior might help younger orcas more easily digest their food, while also allowing other orcas to have a little ...

Despite the bloody picture painted in the movie Jaws, the real king of the ocean is not the great white shark ( Carcharodon ...

Researchers in the Gulf of California have documented a dramatic orca behavior never described before. In two separate ...

Usually there's safety in numbers, but it doesn't always work that way. Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) filter-feed on immense shoals of krill, engulfing colossal mouthfuls of water containing up ...

Off Vancouver Island, whale-watchers got an unusual look at a fin whale estimated at about 70 feet long — roughly the height of a seven-story building — in waters better known for humpbacks and orcas.

Sightings of blue whales and fin whales off Southern Africa’s Atlantic coast have increased in recent years, according to a newly published study. This could signal recovery of the marine mammals ...

A deep wound that exposed blubber behind a young humpback whale's dorsal fin left whale watchers fearing for months that the young female named Skipper would not live. But this week, the 2-year-old ...

There’s something absurd about the fact that the best whale watching spot in America doesn’t require you to set foot on a boat. Lime Kiln Point State Park in Friday Harbor lets you watch orcas cruise ...