Scientists say dolphins and orcas have teamed up to hunt salmon off British Columbia. It’s the first time such behavior has ...

The first documented case of cooperative hunting between killer whales and dolphins has been observed in the waters off ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

New research suggests the two top predators have forged a co-operative rather than competitive relationship to find and feast ...

A new orca calf is believed to have been born into one of the three critically endangered southern resident killer whale pods ...

Killer whales and dolphins, typically a predator-prey pair, have been observed cooperating to hunt salmon. This is the first ...

That was the word last night from two of the researchers who have seen the calf up close, Mark Sears and Maya Sears, the West ...

The ocean's giants are in full-blown combat here in the Monterey Bay. A mother gray whale successfully defended her calf from a pod of killer whales Sunday. "The gray whale mom took her calf and swam ...

SEATTLE – Just 74 southern resident orcas remain, as of the latest count by the Center for Whale Research. The count has hovered around this low point for several years. The 2024 census tallied 73 ...

Orcas have long been revered for their intelligence, adaptability, and group-hunting strategies. But one scientific review spanning two decades has revealed a little-known, yet intriguing behavior.