With their iconic black and white markings, orcas (Orcinus orca), also known as killer whales, are an iconic sea mammal thanks to the 1993 film “Free Willy” and their controversial presence at ...

Orcas Still frame from video footage recorded in the Kvænangen fjords, Norway, in 2024, showing the tongue-nibbling interaction between two free-ranging killer whales.

A baby pilot whale is lifted out of the water on the back of an unidentified killer whale (Photo by Heleen Middel for the paper Interactions Between Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) and Neonate Long ...

“Interactions between Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) and Neonate Long-Finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melas) off South Iceland,” by Chérine D. Baumgartner et al., in Ecology and Evolution ...

Like a proud cat leaving a bird on its owner's doorstep, orcas—also called killer whales—may sometimes offer to share their ...

Baby Bump As so-called "killer whales" have made news over the past few years for violent boat attacks in European waters, marine biologists have noticed a far sweeter behavior in Iceland's frigid ...

Female killer whales do have a chance to help later generations survive, because the species is among the few nonhuman mammals that experience menopause (SN: 3/5/15; SN: 8/19/13).

While well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica, much less is known about killer whales (Orcinus orca) in ...

An unusual encounter with a group of orcas near Iceland led researchers to discover a new and complex behaviour - they had taken in baby pilot whales, and not necessarily to eat them.. Scientists ...

One of the most recognizable is the orca, commonly known as the killer whale. These apex predators are the only living species in the genus Orcinus. Orcas can be found in every ocean and are the ...