Toñi, the oldest known Iberian orca, surfaced in the Strait of Gibraltar with wounds conservationists believe were caused by shotgun pellets.

Since 2020, a small group of Iberian orcas has repeatedly interacted with boats along the coasts of Spain and Portugal, ...

Marine biologists off of Baja California recorded one orca teeing up another to smash a sunfish into pieces. Scientists say there could be a reason for this behavior — or it could be just for ...

Orcas in the Gulf of California were recorded using a coordinated “ram-to-fragment” technique on dead sharp-tail sunfish. One orca held the carcass steady while another struck it at high speed, ...

That would sound like a pretty strong case, but how orcas use their intelligence may be far more revealing. It’s truly f ...

A small, endangered pod of orcas off Spain and Portugal has sunk at least eight boats since 2020, and despite speculation, the real explanation might have nothing to do with revenge.

In two incidents documented in Mexico’s Gulf of California, orcas worked together to blast sunfish into smithereens after they had killed the enormous animals ...

Underwater video captures the moment killer whales in the Gulf of California slam into a sunfish causing it to explode into smithereens. Researchers suspect the orcas are blowing up the fish to ...

Join us for Orcas in the Outfield on Saturday, September 26! Claim a specially priced ticket and snag a Mariners-themed Orcas in the Outfield T-shirt. Plus, $10 of every ticket sold will benefit the ...

There have been numerous accounts in recent years of orcas ramming boats—and sometimes sinking them. Scientists believe this may be a form of culturally learned behavior passed down through ...

Killer whales might pulverize sunfish to break them into smaller bites for young orcas — or they might just find it entertaining, researchers report July 23 in Frontiers in Ethology. “I was absolutely ...

Scientists captured video of orcas ramming into sunfish with such force that the fish exploded. The behavior may be for fun as well as for feeding, they report.