Visitors to Seattle's Ballard Locks Monday racked up some major Pacific Northwest points when they observed a rare sight: Several orcas swam through Salmon Bay, delighting onlookers. But orcas are not ...

President Donald Trump awards NASA’s Artemis II crew members the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. by Lynnanne Nguyen,KOMONewsReporter SEATTLE — Visitors at the Ballard Locks got quite a surprise ...

Several shiny black fins emerged from the water near the Ballard Locks just after 5 p.m. Monday, as onlookers snapped photos and videos. They belonged to transient orcas, or Bigg’s killer whales, one ...

Primetime, the upcoming A24 film about the controversial To Catch a Predator, starring Robert Pattinson as host Chris Hansen, has shared its first full trailer as well as its release date. Skyler ...

Orcas, or killer whales, are deadly and beautiful apex predators. Lindsay Clancy’s home was quietly sold for over $100,000 under value 'Donna Reed Show' star Shelley Fabares' cause of death revealed ...

The mammals may use the technique to make it easier for younger orcas to eat An underwater video shows a trio of orcas devouring a sharp-tail sunfish using a ramming technique “I’d seen orcas hunt ...

Orcas in the Gulf of California have been observed ramming into sharp-tail sunfish at such speed and high power that the fish—one of the world’s heaviest—are almost completely obliterated. Orcas are ...

Orcas along the Gulf of California have found new ways to “play” with their food. On July 29, 2024, Kathryn Ayres, a research scientist for the marine conservation nonprofit Beneath the Waves, ...

An iconic marine predator has been caught on camera demonstrating a curious way to play with its prey. Scientists have captured orcas, fittingly known as killer whales, engaging in some macabre ...

There have been numerous accounts in recent years of orcas ramming boats—and sometimes sinking them. Scientists believe this may be a form of culturally learned behavior passed down through ...

A new study documents two incidents of orcas breaking sunfish into pieces. Screenshot via Héctor Franz. Ayres et al., Frontiers in Ethology, 2026, under CC BY 4.0 A female orca gripped the back end of ...

Researchers in the Gulf of California have documented a dramatic orca behavior never described before. In two separate encounters, one orca gripped a dead sunfish by the fin while another charged into ...