The dramatic incident occurred in Bremer Canyon, a marine park off the coast of Bremer Bay in Western Australia, on Monday April 7 The enormous group of orcas (Orcinus orca) can be seen hunting ...

What is known is that they have a relatively stable supply of deep-swimming cartilaginous fish — such as sharks or rays — ...

For most of the 20th century, scientists on the Pacific Coast of North America held two basic assumptions about the killer whale (Orcinus orca): first, it was a voracious predator inclined to attack ...

Orcinus is derived from the Latin word orcus, which means “of the netherworld.” Originally known as “whale killer,” the orca's common name stems from early whalers' records of the species' predatory ...

Northwest Pacific orcas have started wearing salmon hats again, bringing back a bizarre trend first described in the 1980s, ...

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are no orcas to speak of in Western literature. Although they look like mythic creatures, with their sleek bodies ...