Orcas, also called killer whales, are apex predators of the ocean. Their intelligence, hunting skills, and sheer power make ...

so the researchers used those same “copy me” cues to prompt the whales to replicate human speech. Remarkably, it worked. “We wanted to see how flexible a killer whale can be in copying ...

The video of the whale had people rethinking how they see the animal with some vowing to never go in the ocean ...

The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident population, a federally protected endangered group of fish-eating killer whales stretching from British ...

Killer whale’s remarkable ability to mimic human sounds revealed Scientists of Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Chile have brought to light their research investigation on the elasticity ...

How big they are: Up to 32 feet (9.8 meters) long How long they live: Up to 100 years, but usually around 25 to 50 years What they eat ... killer whales have been linked to four human deaths ...