"We are witnessing an evolutionary process." Scientists discovery cause behind recent killer whale attacks: 'They should be divided' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, ...

Dramatic footage shows several killer whales circling and feeding on a blue shark off Baja California Sur, Mexico. Wildlife videographer Evans Baudin filmed the orcas taking turns with the carcass, a ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A great white shark swims near Guadalupe Island in Mexico. As far as we know, these cetaceans are the sole predator that can kill ...

People love a tidy villain, so sharks get cast as the ocean’s hitmen, while orcas get treated like spooky geniuses with manners. Reality is less cinematic and more biological. Orcas are fully capable ...

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 ...

On March 6, three orcas showed up in Canada’s Vancouver Harbour, later heading south to Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia, that ...

Hunting killer whales always eat the animals they kill, typically leaving behind only a few low-energy parts, such as fins. "Also, if it was just aggression, they wouldn't bother to tear off the fin," ...

It’s long been thought that the Southern Resident orcas that live in our region have no predators, but a new article in Live Science suggests that non-resident orcas, or Bigg’s orcas, might be eating ...

The world’s deadliest ambush predators are masters of stealth, camouflage, and sudden, lethal force, often attacking from hiding to secure prey.