Despite what their name suggests, killer whales do not pose a threat to human life. Humans, on the other hand, are extremely dangerous to certain killer whale populations through various means.
If you want to see the killer whales swimming under and around the boat as it chases the baby, you can check out the entire 4-minute, 18-second video here. The guys on the boat do a nice job of ...
For decades, fish-eating killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have been observed harassing and even killing porpoises ...
Killer whales have been entangled in trawl gear off Alaska in years past, but the numbers reported in 2023 are much higher.
The first time the Weddell seal notices the orcas, it’s already surrounded. Until moments before, it had been resting on an ice floe deep in an Antarctic channel. Then three killer whales ...
In a remarkable development that followed, a pod of killer whales who realise that the rescuers have saved the life of their companion swim around the humans as if to thank them. Finally, ...
Killer whales, which frequently hunt in packs, attacked and feasted on Risso dolphins Saturday about 30 miles west of La Jolla. NOAA says there are about 2,500 of these whales in the eastern North ...
WHO / WHAT: While on expedition off the icy coast of Antarctica to film the very rare type B1 killer whales — it’s estimated there are only 100 alive today — National Geographic Explorer and ...
Before Michelle Fournet moved to Alaska on a whim in her early twenties, she’d never seen a whale. She took a job on a whale watching boat and, each day she was out on the water, gazed at the ...
Aug. 10, 2023 — Microscopic plastic particles have been found in the fats and lungs of two-thirds of the marine mammals in a graduate student's study of ocean microplastics. The presence of ...
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A federal agency says one of its teams is analyzing data on 10 killer whales incidentally caught in Alaska by groundfish ...
