Killer whales hunt fish with clicks and buzzes—they choose and chase their prey with sound waves. But a mundane feature of modern ocean life may be akin to a salmon invisibility cloak, making the ...

Their habitats collide in the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest, where moose go swimming in search of food when it is hot. During these swims, they sometimes venture into deeper waters, where ...

Lobo, or K26, will likely be declared deceased on Orca Conservancy's next census. That will bring the K pod down to 14 ...

Beloved Southern Resident killer whale Tokitae, also called Lolita, was captured from her native waters in Penn Cove more than 50 years ago. For the first time since that traumatic event, her ...

West coast environmental groups argue no measure would save southern resident whales from a catastrophic oil spill.

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.

MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Russian rescuers returned a young female killer whale to the Sea of Okhotsk on Thursday after the orca beached in the far east, the emergency situations ministry said.

Monterey, California, is a destination for whale ... habitat for a variety of marine species. Wildlife visible in the vicinity include blue, gray, humpback, fin, minke and orca (aka killer) whales ...