A pod of humpback whales encountered a group of killer whales during feeding time off the coast of California. On June 24, a ...

Orcas have learned how to hunt and kill huge whale sharks, video shows. Off the coast of Mexico, scientists have observed a pod of killer whales adapting new skills to help them hunt these docile ...

A new study found that a killer whale pod in Mexico is attacking much larger whale sharks from below to debilitate them. This "sniper" hunting strategy appears to be an organized attack, according ...

In 1992, a colleague had returned from a fishing trip in Baja with a story about seeing two killer whales attacking a whale shark. But Ms. Schulman-Janiger was never able to confirm the event.

Killer whales have adapted special strategy to hunt world’s largest fish, scientists say. Orcas temporarily stun and flip over whale sharks to access their lipid-rich liver.

Killer whales bring back wearing salmon hats, but it’s not for fashion. Two orcas from the Pacific Northwest were spotted with dead salmon on their heads, an act first documented in the 1980s.

An orca pod in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico has devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks — the world’s largest fish that can grow up to 18 meters (60 feet) in ...

A killer whale was spotted balancing a salmon on its head. It’s not clear what the behavior means, but orcas were observed doing the same thing in the 1980s. Orcas were previously seen sporting ...

This is the story of a wildly ambitious science experiment to return Keiko to the ocean — while the world watched. A new limited podcast series from Serial Productions and the New York Times.