But off the coast of Baja California, a group of orcas has adopted a brutal way of hunting sunfish: With an unusual maneuver, ...

When a male pearly razorfish is snatched from the sea, a female is forced to transition their sex too early. Scientists say ...

Researchers for the first time have documented orcas cooperating to smash their prey. Both instances were captured on video.

Orcas are called killer whales for a reason. These apex predators are fearsome hunters who employ diverse strategies and work ...

But orcas are also known to play with newly dead food. Some orcas in Puget Sound off Washington state have worn dead salmon ...

The behavior could be a strategy to help younger orcas feed, or it may just be for their own amusement, researchers say ...

While one orca holds the tail of a sunfish, another orca rams into it, smashing it to bits. Researchers say the orcas might ...

There have been numerous accounts in recent years of orcas ramming boats—and sometimes sinking them. Scientists believe this ...

Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a ...

A group of orcas in the Gulf of California appear to have an additional tool in their hunting toolbox—and it was caught on camera. One whale holds down the dead body of a large sunfish, which can grow ...

In two incidents documented in Mexico’s Gulf of California, orcas worked together to blast sunfish into smithereens after ...

The Birmingham Zoo has opened a new habitat featuring axolotls, a critically endangered amphibian known for its unusual ...