When an eight-ton sperm whale washed ashore on the Oregon coast, officials believed dynamite was the fastest way to remove ...

Researchers for the first time have documented orcas cooperating to smash their prey. Both instances were captured on video.

Killer whales are smart predators. Researchers recently caught them engaging in an extremely unusual behavior: They seemed to ...

It’s been speculated they might do this for fun,” said Carlos Duarte, the co-author of a study documenting the unique ...

We're very lucky that orcas don't see us as a meal, given that they can hit a 4,000 pound sunfish hard enough to make it literally explode.

The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand Tuesday, with the beach closed over fears the bodies will fill with gas and explode as they decompose. The ...

Eventually, they can explode. They don’t all explode, and this whale might not explode. But they can, and usually when they do, and someone’s there with a camera, it produces a pretty dramatic image.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Conservation officials have been ...