For more than five decades, southern resident killer whales have steered clear of Penn Cove on Whidbey Island, avoiding ...

An endangered orca vanished from a dwindling whale pod off the Washington coast, a conservation group said. The missing ...

Members of the J Pod were spotted Tuesday afternoon off Blake Island as we learn that a member of the K Pod has likely died. The news about the missing orca comes from the Center For Whale Research on ...

A breaching whale has capsized a boat and sent two people flying into the water. Video shows how a humpback whale suddenly appeared out of the water before flipping over a small, 23-foot (7m) vessel.

Oct. 22 (UPI) --Audience members attending an orca show at SeaWorld San Antonio got more than they bargained for when the killer whale defecated in its pool and then splashed the crowd with soiled ...

For the first time in half a century, a group of killer whales, or orcas, returned to a cove in Washington's Puget Sound. Penn Cove is known for a roundup by hunters that took place in the 1970s.

Whether out of forgiveness, fading memory or just simple animal behavior, the Southern Resident orcas’ L pod — one of three ...

Here’s the scoop on what happens when two heavyweights of the animal kingdom—the killer whale and ... [+] the moose—cross paths in certain circumstances. As it turns out, in certain areas ...

Those are the Orca, or killer whale, and the Humpback whale ... Humpbacks can be seen breaching from the water, slapping the surface with their fins and tails, and twirling underwater ...

Prior research has shown that the southern resident killer whales of the Pacific are struggling. Not only are their numbers dwindling, but the number of offspring is dropping dramatically.

The new six-episode podcast from "The New York Times" and Serial Productions follows Keiko the orca's journey from animal actor to free whale Serial Productions Serial Productions is ready to ...