Orcas that are "rarely seen" were caught on camera hunting sea lions off the California coast this week, the Monterey Bay Whale Watch said on Wednesday. The "absolutely fantastic whale watching ...

They're called killer whales for a reason. Well, technically, they're known as orcas. These large sea creatures (that can ...

Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ, BC – A pod of transient killer whales recently ventured into the Ucluelet harbour, chasing a sea lion for dinner, but dinner got the best of the apex predators when a vessel seemingly ...

Getty Images Killer whales in captivity: they have been known to mimic other animals such as sea lions Dr Alex Thornton, senior lecturer in cognitive evolution at the University of Exeter ...

Footage captured in California’s Monterey Bay shows one orca using its flukes to fling a common murre nearly 20 feet skyward.

At Sea Lion Island, “type A” killer whales are sighted. These are clearly demarcated black and white, with a white patch above and behind the eye. However, there are likely to be other ...

The astonishing scene is brought to mind by recent footage showing an orca “punting” a common murre 20 feet into the air.

Although they look like mythic creatures, with their sleek bodies, panda-like colors, and pointy-toothed grins, killer whales don ... to seize unsuspecting sea lion pups, timing their hunts ...

hunting sea lions, hunting a harbor porpoise, playing with a spot prawn buoy, to celebrating with breaches and spyhops,” MBWW said. “There were so many behaviors to see!” Killer whales, or ...

Nine killer whales were found dead in trawl nets this summer ... bearded seals, ringed seals, Steller’s sea lions, northern fur seals and Pacific walruses. “I’m deeply disturbed by how blatantly the ...

Orcas more commonly prey on far smaller marine mammals, such as seals, sea lions, dolphins and gray ... director of the nonprofit Killer Whale Project in Monterey Bay. “It was amazing ...