A strange, dangerous game of targeting and ramming into small sailing and fishing boats is spreading through a population of orcas off Spain's coast. Scientists say at least 20 Iberian orcas have ...

Orcas Wear Dead Fish as Hats After 40 Years, Scientists Unclear Why They Are Sporting the Unusual Fashion Trend Again Killer ...

Two orcas from the Pacific Northwest were spotted with dead salmon on their heads, an act first documented in the 1980s.

In the case of the boat encounters near the Iberian Peninsula, no humans have been harmed. In fact, there are no documented cases of an orca intentionally harming a human in the wild. Hanne ...

Experts believe them to involve a subpopulation of about 15 orcas given the designation "Gladis". The research group GTOA, which tracks the population of the Iberian orca sub-species, has ...

Blackberry, a 33-year-old male orca, is a member of 72 Southern Resident ... whales have rammed more than 650 vessels off Europe’s Iberian Peninsula. “They’re good at social learning ...

A ferry captain captured the stunning moment a family of killer whales, or orcas, came within 10 feet of the boat in downtown Vancouver.

According to GTOA, a research group that tracks populations of the Iberian orca subspecies, at least 20 interactions in the Strait of Gibraltar have been recorded this month, per Reuters.

Experts say it may just be a "fad" that has emerged as the whales find more time to goof around. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Since 2020, a critically endangered population of orcas living in the waters of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) has been interacting with vessels, primarily sailboats, ramming and damaging ...

Beaked whales - From ORCA’s 2023 dataset, unidentified beaked whale sightings rates were high in the canyons of the Canadian continental slope, off the northwest corner of the Iberian Peninsula ...