Researchers examining 20 years of data on orca sightings have discovered a worrying trend linked to the receding ice, ...

Killer whales also face common threats that most marine life does, such as getting caught in fishing nets or the biggest culprit of them all: pollution from plastic and toxic spills.

Scientists documented 34 remarkable cases of wild killer whales trying to give food to humans across four oceans over 20 ...

A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf’s corpse with her for more than two weeks in a harrowing tale of grief, has lost another baby, scientists revealed.. The orca ...

The center has been studying this critically endangered group of killer whales, which now number around 75, since 1976. Some 103 orcas were involved in the research due to births and deaths over ...

Killer whales live in multi-generational family groups. Each family is led by an old matriarch, often well into her 80s. The rest of the group are her daughters and sons, and grand-children.