Though researchers have some best guesses, nobody seems to know for sure why exactly a killer whale in Washington state was ...

Orcas are endlessly fascinating creatures. Their antics have been the focus of the internet's interest in recent years. Now, ...

Scientists have for the first time seen orcas hunting whale sharks, the biggest fish on the planet, new research has revealed. The question of how orcas are able to kill the enormous fish is resolved ...

The whale shark can grow to be the world's largest fish species, so the smaller orcas have figured out how to collaboratively ...

For the first time, scientists have captured video evidence of orcas cooperatively hunting whale sharks, the largest species ...

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A new study has found that less than a quarter as many women under the age of 25 died of cervical cancer in the United States from 2019 to 2021 as died in an equivalent period from 1992 to 1994.

A few months earlier, researchers reported the first instance of a lone killer whale hunting and eating a great white shark off the coast of South Africa. In 2022, three instances were recorded of ...

Most people think of great white sharks as the most ferocious predators in the ocean, and while that might be true to an extent, orcas will hunt and take down great whites. As far as I’m concerned, ...

Swimming with whale sharks is a transformative adventure that will change your worldview. They’re gentle but strong, large but timid, but, most of all, absolutely beautiful. We had an opportunity to ...

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