Scientists from the University of Washington recently deployed a little over 1 mile of fiber-optic cable in the Salish Sea to ...

The stakes are high. The Southern Resident orcas are endangered and face a triple threat: underwater noise pollution, toxic ...

New study links shipping noise pollution to higher mortality, lower birth rates for killer whales, but offers market solutions to address it.

A group of orcas off the coast of California has honed a brutal set of hunting skills. Trapping prey near an underwater canyon, they flip, drown, ram, and slap their targets to death. Killer whales ...

Out in the cold, blue stretch of water between Washington State and Canada, a small team of scientists is on a mission to ...

A rumor has circulated online since 2018 claiming that, in 2017, a humpback whale in the Cook Islands used its body to push ...

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Scientists discovered that a pod of orcas have developed a new method for killing whale sharks, the world's largest fish. Scientists have believed that killer whales, or ...

The technology would allow researchers to detect the sounds of orcas and other mammals with high-frequency vocalizations ...

Just 74 southern resident orcas remain, as of the latest count by the Center for Whale Research. The count has hovered around this low point for several years.

John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between ...

That may be the strategy behind a fascinating new analysis of the impact giant merchant ships have on killer whale populations. It is a proposal written by M. Scott Taylor and published by the ...

SEATTLE – A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. The pod of Bigg’s killer whales ...