IT hadn’t been more than ten minutes since we left the harbour, but already I was prepared to call it quits. The sea was swelling beneath our flimsy RIB dinghy, like giant rolling hills growing ...

The pod was photographed on Norway's west coast earlier this year A "mystery" pod of killer whales spotted off the coast of Scotland three years ago has finally been found - off the west coast of ...

Researchers prefer to speak of encounters and interactions rather than attacks and assume that the orcas do not act with ...

Two Norwegian sailors experienced a terrifying adventure off the coast of Portugal. Their yacht was attacked by a group of ...

This summer, she's listening to the orcas of Norway's Lofoten Islands, beloved by the creatures for its healthy populations of herring and other fish to feed on. But an invisible problem is ...

Two Norwegian sailors underwent a terrifying ordeal off the coast of Portugal when a group of orcas attacked their yacht.

It turns out that all I needed to do was head to Tromso in Norway, where the orca visit every winter to make the most of the plentiful fish supplies in the freezing waters off the surrounding islands.

Norwegian Orca Survey (Andenes, Norway). We worked together over several winter seasons to deploy innovative camera/data-logging tags. Eventually, several tags deployed successfully in November ...

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 ...