Like humans, "killer whales have culture ... There is some debate among experts regarding whether these attacks in captivity were deliberate or accidental. In Giles's view, Tilikum may have ...

Whale attacks on humans are extremely rare in Chilean waters. It's also not possible for a whale to swallow something as large as a human, which is why the kayaker was spat out. While humpbacks ...

Whales: Facts about the largest animals on Earth Turns out, while orcas may deserve their fearsome reputation when it comes to other marine animals, they almost never attack humans in the wild ...

Although there certainly is some bemoaning of “humans” deserving the whales’ attacks as their due comeuppance, what I find exciting about these responses is how many of them don’t fall ...

Paleolithic humans used whale bones as tools 20,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of marine tool-making discovered.

In a paper published this month in the scientific journal Ocean and Coastal Management, the scientists argue that what humans see as attacks are ... Orcas, or “killer whales,” can grow up ...

A traumatized female orca could be behind the increased killer-whale attacks on boats. A traumatic event may have triggered a change in White Gladis' behavior, experts told LiveScience.

Image So why are killer whale attacks so rare? Emma Luck, a marine-mammal researcher at the University of Alaska, told me that a big part of it is just that orcas don’t encounter humans as often.