Gliding stealthily through Norway’s frigid Arctic waters ... shoulders with one of the most fearsome sea predators — killer whales. Gliding stealthily through Norway’s frigid Arctic waters ...

The killer whale ended up swimming all the way to Norway. Throughout its life, Keiko maintained a love for humans and ...

Over time, that name morphed into "killer whales." Scientists don't know whether ... near-attacks — an orca charging at a surfer in Norway before pulling away — most likely happened because ...

According to their results recently published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the culprit is clear: a killer whale ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

A team of marine biologists from Norway, the U.S. and Denmark ... could also lead to new research on how baleen whales protect themselves from killer whales. More information: Dorian S.

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are no orcas to speak of in Western literature. Although they look like mythic creatures, with their sleek bodies ...

Our current knowledge of orca – killer whales – has been greatly added ... Norwegian Orca Survey (Andenes, Norway). We worked together over several winter seasons to deploy innovative camera ...