A small pod resides year-round on the west coast, and northern pods are commonly sighted in Shetland, Orkney and on the north ...

Two sailing crews were rescued Saturday after orcas attacked their boats off the coast of Portugal, near Lisbon, Portuguese authorities said. The recent confrontations at sea are the latest in a ...

Sailors off the coast of Galicia, Spain, were terrified. First, they heard a deep, resonant thud against the hull. Then another, and another. Below them, in the murky, emerald waters, a shadow moved.

Between January 2020 and mid-2025, there were only six confirmed incidents of orcas sinking boats. Scientists are also still uncertain about why the orcas are behaving this way, but the leading theory ...

While scientists are still trying to figure out why exactly the orcas have it out for boats at sea, some have suggested that it’s simply a sign that they’re having fun. “They don’t care if it’s a ...

Five families of orcas joined forces to hunt down and feed on a blue whale, the largest creature on the planet, in what was an extremely rare sighting off Australia. More than 60 orcas worked together ...

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Two whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. CREDIT: Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 270. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, ...

Shocking footage has surfaced showing orcas and dolphins 'swimming aimlessly' in a deserted marine park in France. Two orcas and 12 dolphins are still trapped in Marineland Antibes, a facility near ...

France’s last two captive orcas were filmed stranded in an algae-infested marine park near Cannes months after the park closed, leaving the fate of the marine mammals uncertain. Animal activists have ...