Researchers at Ehime University successfully assessed the risk of DDTs on endocrine disruption in killer whales using New ...

How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9.8 meters ... because the animal mistook the surfer for a seal. Although wild killer whales do not intentionally harm people, they have attacked boats.

The pod of killer whales that showed up Thursday, Jan. 30, have only been documented less than 10 times since 1993.

And that’s heartbreaking, because when you’re out with orcas in the wild, you sense what no show ... their teeth show large chips and cracks from biting into bone. Offshore orcas travel ...

She couldn’t nurse her young because “she just didn’t know how,” says Morton in The Nature of Things documentary Listening to Orcas. In the wild, orcas stay with their mothers their entire ...

A pod of killer whales made an unexpected visit off the coast of Orange County Thursday. The pod of CA56 killer whales (orcas ...

In 1995, Robert Small and Douglas DeMaster calculated annual survivorship rates (ASRs) in captive orcas and compared these results to the ASRs of wild orcas living in the Pacific Northwest of North ...

The phenomenon is more common in captivity, but people have also seen wild orcas with curved fins. So, the cause cannot be captivity alone. Ultimately, what's going on is the collagen in the ...