For the last five-plus years, killer whales have been ramming – and in some cases sinking – expensive yachts, sailboats and fishing boats in the crystalline waters off the coasts of Spain, Portugal, ...

Whales and dolphins use sound to communicate, navigate and detect prey, making them particularly vulnerable to noise ...

Killer whales—it's rare to see them,” he says ... And subsequent accounts of orcas swimming headfirst into boats have primarily come from this Mediterranean region. In 2023, a paper published in ...

Grabbing a meal with a friend is way better than dining solo — and killer whales agree. The whales prefer to hunt for herring in pairs, researchers report July 3 in Current Biology. These cetaceans ...

When researcher Jared Towers set up his cameras underwater to observe a pair of killer whales, he saw something strange. She closed her mouth, paused, apparently watching for Towers’ reaction and hung ...

It’s been said, many times, that humans are just visitors in the ocean. The real locals are the creatures who dwell there permanently; not the ones who merely catch a couple waves in the morning, then ...

Two French sailors were rescued off the coast of northern Spain after their boat was rammed by orcas. They were taken safely to shore by the Spanish coastguard after the killer whales attacked their ...

And you thought your job was bad. Trainers at a marine zoo in southern France say they have to manually sexually stimulate a male killer whale once a month to prevent him from inbreeding with his ...