Today their numbers have dropped to 73. "The Revelator" spoke with Giles about the biggest threats facing these killer whales and what can be done to save them. With the help of specially ...

Orcas have been seen to imitate each other, teach skills to their offspring and even "tease" humans. Alaskan killer whales have been spotted stealing fish from baited fishing lines. Found across ...

An adult male transient or Bigg's killer whale. Robin Agarwal via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 Last Thursday at around 9 a.m. local time, a boat off the eastern shore of Prince of Wales Island in ...

Nearly two years after a tragic accident ended the saga of a wayward killer whale known ... In a story rife with human conflict, politics and finger pointing, "Saving Luna" treads lightly on ...

Sometimes these behaviors persist, but most often, just like human ... and save us from ourselves, and who better to fill that role than a creature both familiar and alien: the killer whale.

With their bellies full and still more salmon at the ready, whales could be storing them to eat later or saving them for a ...

In 19th-century Australia, a pod of killer whales was known to herd baleen whales into a bay near a whalers’ settlement, then slap their tails to alert the humans ... Go save them, he told ...

Have you ever witnessed wild animals seeking help from humans? What if the animal is ... However, were you aware that killer whales also display a similar kind of behaviour? Animal behaviour ...