In 1995, Robert Small and Douglas DeMaster calculated annual survivorship rates (ASRs) in captive orcas and compared these results to the ASRs of wild orcas living in the Pacific Northwest of North ...

With a team of scientists, de Stephanis has been monitoring the interaction of wild orcas with dummy rudders, the BBC reported. The results of the investigation are due to be published soon ...

She couldn’t nurse her young because “she just didn’t know how,” says Morton in The Nature of Things documentary Listening to Orcas. In the wild, orcas stay with their mothers their entire ...

Orcas, or killer whales, are known to some as the velociraptors of the sea for the incredibly orchestrated attacks they carry out in the wild. From spy hopping to wave washing, a simple seal faces ...

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 they have attacked and killed humans ...

"There has never been any injury or anyone ever killed by an orca in the wild. "The only cases were by orcas driven mad by captivity - in the wild, they don't, we simply are not on their menu." ...

The large hind limbs, bright colors, and long, tapered, white-tipped tail identify the woodland jumping mouse. The 115-160 mm (4.5-6.3 in), sparsely-haired tail, grayish brown above, and white below ...

And that’s heartbreaking, because when you’re out with orcas in the wild, you sense what no show can ever capture: their spirit and sagacity, their joy and cunning, their love of the open ...

Transposable elements, or "jumping genes", were first identified by Barbara McClintock more than 50 years ago. Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition ...

Despite the threatening-sounding name, killer whales aren't really something humans should be afraid of — at least not in the wild. Orcas have been having a moment thanks to a critically ...

Cullis-Suzuki learns from Namgis Hereditary Chief Ernest Alfred that the West Coast Resident orcas are a threatened species. Their future is at risk because of reduced wild salmon stocks and over ...