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

Feb. 12, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encores Sunday, Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. In Antarctica, killer whales hunt using their intelligence and teamwork. Swimming ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers say they can now spot those underwater baby bumps from the air and keep ...

Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations ...

Huber and Varni, project volunteers, said the orcas, or killer whales, were not present. But they said tooth-rake marks (common after orca predation) were evident on carcass. Schulman-Janiger ...

The recent autopsy of a partially devoured great white shark confirms a brutal hunting trend—killer whales around the world are not afraid to attack the fearsome fish, especially when they get a ...

The carcass was found on the beach at Cape Bridgewater near Portland. Famously, killer whales have been documented at length targeting white sharks in South Africa, resulting in a mass exodus of ...

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 ...

- Killer whales are up at 11 o'clock. - Oh my gosh. There they are. Killer whales are one of the most successful predators on the planet. - Here, they come. Here they come. - This is gonna be amazing.

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 ...