The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was ...

Killer whales are not known for attacking people. The attacks and subsequent deaths that orcas have caused have taken place when killer whales have been taken into captivity and kept in small tanks, ...

In another wild instance of orcas attacking ships, three orcas were filmed off the coast of Lisbon, Portugal, going full send on a small boat until the rudder was detached and the vessel started to ...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth sued the Trump administration today for failing to analyze how ...

When three killer whales struck the Lady L, Heath Samples thought a tanker had collided with his yacht, as everyone on board was knocked off their feet. After the orcas repeatedly buffeted the yacht, ...

A cruise ship heading for New York this month struck and killed a whale and dragged it into the Hudson River, part of a higher-than-usual rate of strikes along the Eastern Seaboard for this time of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A sight at San Francisco's Ocean Beach is drawing people from all over the area. "I just thought this could be a once-in-a-lifetime thing that I may never get to see again," ...

Following the ramming of a small boat by an orca in the Strait of Gibraltar, authorities in Spain issued recommendations Tuesday that small vessels stick to the coastline in that region to avoid often ...

The North Atlantic right whale now numbers an estimated 384 animals, up eight whales from the previous year, according to a ...

An ailing gray whale that has beached itself three times in the past week near Everett apparently is being attacked by killer whales. A Tulalip resident who lives on a bluff facing the water says she ...