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 ...

Photo from Felix Rottmann, UnSplash 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 ...

The video of the whale had people rethinking how they see the animal with some vowing to never go in the ocean ...

Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale predation on white sharks in Australia.

Based on DNA analysis from the bite wounds on the carcass of a large white shark washed ashore near Portland in Victoria in ...

There were just 73 orcas left in the population as of the latest census, in July 2024.  The conservation groups are now ...

An orca calf less than 24 hours old has been spotted in a rare sighting of a newborn killer whale in Western Australia. The animals are regularly seen off Bremer Bay in summer, but calves are ...

An 'imminent threat' assessment in November 2024 set a ticking legal clock that requires two ministers to recommend an ...

The federal measures put in place to protect the endangered orcas since the last ministerial assessment in 2018 have proven ...

Orcas have no natural predators. They sit at the top of the marine food chain, hunting sharks, seals, and even whales, making them one of the ocean’s deadliest creatures. Orcas hunt great white ...