Orca researchers, who painstakingly catalog every killer whale they see in the area, were intrigued: Who were these orcas and ...

On All the Smoke Unplugged, Howard White breaks down how the orca vs. whale distinction reveals why Michael Jordan's mental ...

The trails of Turtleback Mountain Preserve wind through old-growth fir, past quiet wetlands and open rocky balds, offering ...

A routine whale watching tour has taken a dark and rare turn as a pod of orcas showed why they’re called killer whales.

A boat full of tourists was treated to a heart-stopping display just moments from the coastline. For the first time in ...

A rare pod of orcas, known as CA-51, has returned to Monterey Bay after a three-year hiatus, delighting whale watchers and ...

Washington State now requires boats to stay 1,000 yards from Southern Resident killer whales, a rule effective in early 2025.

Blue whale calves enter the world already the size of a bus, yet they still face danger. A hungry killer whale sees a slow, inexperienced target guarded by a single adult. However, orcas cannot reach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orcas acted as primary scouts by actively seeking out baleen whales and alerting the whalers by breaching and slapping their tails ...

Biologists have seen signs of orca-on-orca predation in the North Pacific, and such cannibalism may explain why some orcas travel in large family groups. Two distinct subspecies of orcas, also called ...

Captured off the coast of San Diego, the astonishing video pictured above captures the moment that a dolphin is punched on the chin by a killer whale. The dolphin rises above the surface, but the orca ...