If you live on the West Coast then you need to know these FIVE FACTS ABOUT ORCAS: 🐋 1. Orcas have been roaming oceans for approximately six million years! That’s 30 times longer than humans! 2. Orcas have the second largest brain of any animal in the world. 3. Every orca is individually identifiable because they each have a unique dorsal fin and saddle patch. 4. Southern resident orca, J-2 aka Granny, was the oldest known orca in the world. She lived to be 105 years old. 5. Orcas are some of th

Type D, or subantarctic orcas, are the rarest of four orca varieties found in the southern hemisphere—and this is the first known underwater footage of them. | National Geographic

A population of Antarctic killer whales known as B1 uses an extraordinary strategy to hunt seals resting on ice. Working as a team, the whales create a powerful breaking wave to wash their target into the water. However, when the piece of ice is too big to wave wash, they create a subsurface shock wave instead, which shatters the ice into small pieces. After this pod had successfully pushed this Weddell seal into the water, a pair of humpback whales arrived to disrupt the hunt. No one knows exac

A woman sailing a yacht in the Mediterranean Sea filmed a frightening encounter with a huge orca, which attacked her vessel by repeatedly banging into it. | ABC News