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 ...

Ask anyone who’s had encounters with killer whales, and they will tell you just how smart they are. Orcas are incredibly intelligent creatures, capable of complex hunting strategies. They also engage ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While killer whales (Orcinus orca) can trigger the immediate departure of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias), extended absences from their aggregation sites are also part of the sharks' natural ...

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 ...