Social media users have shared their amazement at the complexity of killer whale communication ... it reaffirms the incredible intelligence and adaptability of these marine giants.

For most of the 20th century, scientists on the Pacific Coast of North America held two basic assumptions about the killer whale (Orcinus orca): first, it was a voracious predator inclined to attack ...

And, equally, the nearly mystical experience of bonding with an intelligence eerily similar ... She is, he says, as close as you can get to a killer whale in dog form.

In September 2024, an employee at SeaWorld’s Orlando theme park was injured during a training exercise with a killer whale. A U.S. Department of Labor investigation found that the trainer was ...