According to their results recently published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the culprit is clear: a killer whale ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

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 ... whales. Over time, that name morphed into "killer ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

Research confirms a great white shark that washed up on a beach in south-west Victoria was the victim of killer whale ...

A video posted by Aquatic Mammals depicts the orcas eating the prey. “I was definitely surprised by how close the killer whales were to the anglers,” Ochoa told McClatchy News. But ...

Alisa Schulman-Janiger, director of the ACS-LA Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project, told FTW Outdoors that Jean Huber and Christy Varni discovered the floating carcass at mid-morning less than a ...

Deb Johnson Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the ... “We swim in the same water and in some cases, we eat the same fish.” Dolphins Plus is in ...

Orcas, also called killer whales, are apex predators of the ocean. Their intelligence, hunting skills, and sheer power make ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...