The video breaks down the lingering fear about whether killer whales pose a real danger to humans. It explains how their behavior in the wild differs from the perception created by their size and ...

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, ...

A terrifying encounter unfolded off the coast of Cascais, Portugal, last week when a pod of killer whales rammed two sailboats, sinking one and crippling another. Nine people were dramatically rescued ...

A family’s yacht was attacked by a pod of killer whales in the middle of the night, the latest in a series of similar incidents off the Portuguese coast. The Dutch family was sailing between Porto and ...