Great white sharks ( Carcharodon carcharias) are often unfairly the stuff of marine nightmares. But these infamously fearsome creatures are sometimes eaten by an animal even higher on the food ...

Orcas don’t have any natural predators, so how did this happen? The tooth marks, it turned out, were distinctive – they were ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called resident orcas, stay in such large family groups ...

Orcas are among the most intelligent and coordinated hunters in the ocean, capable of targeting animals once considered untouchable apex predators. Observations show them using precise teamwork to ...

A pod of Orcas, also known as "killer whales," attacked a boat off of Spain in a growing trend experts say might be "revenge" for years of being injured by them. A boat captain took a video of the ...

Scientists found evidence that killer whales may hunt and eat other killer whales, revealing new insights into how ...

There are all sorts of fascinating things happening in the world’s oceans right now. Perhaps nothing’s more interesting than a pod of killer whales near Spain and Portugal that are terrorizing boats ...

Orcas are among the ocean’s top predators, yet there is only one well-documented attack on a human in the wild: in 1972, a surfer was bitten – probably because he was mistaken for a seal – but ...

A pod of Orcas (Orcinus orca), also known as Killer Whales, feeding, in the Atlantic Ocean. There is a small baby orca amongst them, clearly visible in the image, with its head up. A group of ...

This browser does not support the Video element. BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - A pod of killer whales repeatedly rammed a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar this week, damaging it enough to require Spanish ...