The video breaks down the lingering fear about whether killer whales pose a real danger to humans. It explains how their behavior in the wild differs from the perception created by their size and ...

Killer whales are not known for attacking people. The attacks and subsequent deaths that orcas have caused have taken place when killer whales have been taken into captivity and kept in small tanks, ...

In another wild instance of orcas attacking ships, three orcas were filmed off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal, going full send on a small boat until the rudder was detached and the vessel started to ...

A pod of killer whales attacked and sunk a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar, between Spain and Morocco, officials confirmed to ABC News. Two people were on board the vessel when the incident occurred ...

Some say they got this name because sailors noticed their ability to dispatch enormous whales and dubbed them ‘whale killers’. These remarkable predators can even successfully hunt a blue whale, the ...

Scientists thought they were perhaps the offspring of one female with genetic aberrations. It’s been 14 years since Bob Pitman set out to find an unusual-looking type of killer whale. It had been ...