A massive gang of over 60 orcas was seen brutalizing an endangered pygmy blue whale off the coast of Western Australia by a ...

A pair of orcas terrorizing white sharks off the coast of South Africa may have captured the popular imagination, but their ...

For most of the 20th century, scientists on the Pacific Coast of North America held two basic assumptions about the killer whale (Orcinus orca): first, it was a voracious predator inclined to attack ...

Orcinus is derived from the Latin word orcus, which means “of the netherworld.” Originally known as “whale killer,” the orca's common name stems from early whalers' records of the species' predatory ...

Two orcas, Wikie and Keijo, and 12 dolphins are stuck in a shuttered French Riviera marine park after Spanish authorities ...

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are no orcas to speak of in Western literature. Although they look like mythic creatures, with their sleek bodies ...