Learn about the fatal encounters between two groups of killer whales, bringing the idea of whale cannibalism into question.
Scientists found evidence that killer whales may hunt and eat other killer whales, revealing new insights into how ...
Two severed fins bearing the tooth marks of other killer whales have raised a troubling question: are some orcas hunting ...
In 2022, a Russian whale researcher made a remarkable discovery on Bering Island off Russia's Pacific coast: a severed killer ...
Detached orca fins scored with distinctive tooth marks suggest that killer whale cannibalism is happening — and it might ...
Orcas don’t have any natural predators, so how did this happen? The tooth marks, it turned out, were distinctive – they were ...
In August 2022, a large, bloody fin covered in orca tooth marks washed up on a beach on Bering Island in eastern Russia. The same thing happened again a little more than a mile away in July 2024.
Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known identification of “tool” usage by marine mammals. The “southern resident” killer ...
A new species of killer whale has been discovered off the southern coast of Chile. Researchers from San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography say the whales look distinctly different than orcas.
Ask anyone who’s had encounters with killer whales, and they will tell you just how smart they are. Orcas are incredibly ...