How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9.8 meters) long How long they live: Up to 100 years, but usually around 25 to 50 years What they eat: Fish, seals, seabirds, squid, sharks, and even whales Orcas ...

Not even Great Whites – let alone seals – want to cross paths with the ocean’s apex predators: Orcas. Otherwise known as killer whales, these intelligent and ruthless hunters often target wildlife in ...

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in another sign of ...

Submitted by the Orcas Island Wrestling Club. Six wrestlers from the Orcas Island Wrestling Club competed in the Western Washington Kids Wrestling League Oak Harbor novice tournament on Jan. 19. The ...

When they're wearing salmon hats and terrorizing yachts, it's easy, perhaps, to forget that orcas are the most fearsome large predator lurking beneath the waves. Here comes a sobering reminder.

While fishing off the coast of Honduras in 2023, a group of anglers stumbled upon a rare sight: a pod of orcas hunting down a sperm whale. The underwater attack—which was organized and bloody ...

The loss of Tahlequah’s new calf (“Orca Tahlequah’s new baby dies,” Dec. 31, Climate Lab) and her all-too-familiar grief are heart-wrenching. It would be easy to despair and feel powerless.

In an astonishing display of marine might, a 60-year-old orca, affectionately known as Sophia, has been captured on camera taking down a great white shark off the coast of South Africa. This rare ...

Surfers at a popular beach in the Waikato had an unforgettable encounter on Saturday when they were joined in the waves by a pod of playful orca whales. Video / Supplied After several recent orca ...