Kayaker Adrián Simancas is speaking out after he was briefly stuck inside the mouth of a whale that attempted to swallow him off the coast of Chile.

The adult female, seeking a new home with her calf after the closure of Marineland in France, faces the grim reality of ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

Researchers used DNA evidence to confirm orcas killed a 15-foot great white shark discovered mangled on an Australian beach.

According to their results recently published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the culprit is clear: a killer whale ...

I was pleased to see Lex responding to recent commentary suggesting that the government is going to intervene in more decisions by the UK’s competition authority, the Competition and Markets ...

France has denied an application to transport two orcas from Marineland Antibes to the site being proposed by the Whale Sanctuary Project, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, near Sherbrooke ...

A sperm whale washed ashore on Cuttyhunk Island off Cape Cod Sunday, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said in a statement. The most recent whale discovery is part of a series of whale ...

A humpback whale has got into difficulty after becoming entangled in rope at a fish farm off Skye. Organic Sea Harvest said it had suspended normal operations at its Invertote site in the north of ...

For instance, a SeaWorld orca named "Tilikum" was involved ... to form even larger groups of over 100 orcas. A female killer whale gives birth to one calf at a time every three to 10 years.