The question becomes even more perplexing given the wide range of different animals that orca—which are found in waters all over the world—eat. While all orca are considered one species ...

How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9.8 meters) long How long they live: Up to 100 years, but usually around 25 to 50 years What they eat ... name morphed into "killer whales." ...

Blue whales and killer whales (orcas) are some of the largest creatures in the ocean and some of the most famous. These intelligent animals are truly amazing and share some distinct similarities.

Killer whales attack a whale shark in the ocean ... predators in the same way as some of their relatives. They tend to eat small fish, shrimp and plankton by sucking water in through their ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of ...

The gentle giants, which eat tiny plankton, can grow as long as a school bus. Still, killer whales have developed a way to take them down, which researchers documented in video footage.

Unlike Southern Residents, “Bigg’s” killer whales eat seals, sea lions, and other marine animals. “Seals and sea lions have been protected for decades, and so their populations have rebounded.

An unusual encounter with a group of orcas near Iceland led researchers to discover a new and complex behaviour - they had ...

With their bellies full and still more salmon at the ready, whales could be storing them to eat later or saving them for a particular killer whale they might see later. But, Giles added ...

A large number of whales visiting the waters off New England included an uncommon sighting of an orca eating a tuna and an unusually large group of an endangered species of whale, scientists said.