In fact, it has happened more than two dozen times across four oceans, according to a study published June 30 in the American ...

Killer whales sharing food with other killer whales is well-documented, but a new study in the Journal of Comparative ...

Researchers have identified a fascinating behavior in killer whales, aka orcas: they sometimes offer to share their prey with ...

Scientists documented 34 remarkable cases of wild killer whales trying to give food to humans across four oceans over 20 ...

Like a proud cat leaving a bird on its owner's doorstep, orcas—also called killer whales—may sometimes offer to share their ...

There have been four known fatal attacks on humans since the 1970s, but all of these have been by killer whales in captivity.

"In the past, killer whales have, for example, worked in [cooperation] with humans on boats to hunt other whales during the whaling era." A file photo of two orcas hunting. Orcas are very social ...

A traumatized female orca could be behind the increased killer-whale attacks on boats. A traumatic event may have triggered a change in White Gladis' behavior, experts told LiveScience. They ...

Attacks by orcas, or killer whales, ... The highly intelligent animals are known to be generally peaceful, especially toward humans, and before 2020, ...

While orcas may deserve their fearsome reputation when it comes to other marine animals, they almost never attack humans in the wild, according to LiveScience. "I don’t think a killer whale ...

So why are killer whale attacks so rare? Emma Luck, a marine-mammal researcher at the University of Alaska, told me that a big part of it is just that orcas don’t encounter humans as often.

Scientists observed an orca whale killing a great white shark by itself and believe it may be one of the first recorded solo killer whale attacks on a great white shark.