Whale watchers identified the pod as Bigg's killer whales, a type that hunts marine mammals and lives in the Salish Sea. The ...

An orca whale breaches the surface of the water off Seattle on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. The whale was part of a pod that swam ...

With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orca whales put on a show near Seattle on Friday. The close encounter attracted ...

Orcas have long been revered for their intelligence, adaptability, and group-hunting strategies. But one scientific review spanning two decades has revealed a little-known, yet intriguing behavior.

Inner coast transient killer whale hunting close to a Steller sea lion haulout off the outer coast of Washington. New research has confirmed that West Coast transient killer whales who live between ...

Scientists have spotted a subset of killer whales using seaweed to scratch each other’s backs, marking the first known identification of “tool” usage by marine mammals. The “southern resident” killer ...

While transient ecotype killer whales are mammal-eating, the resident and offshore orcas are fish-eating. Though killer whale populations in the eastern North Pacific near Vancouver Island and Alaska ...

The Russian government takes action weeks after video footage showed the animals languishing in freezing waters.

Dec. 19 (UPI) --Kshamenk, the last killer whale held in captivity in Latin America, died of cardiorespiratory arrest in Argentina at age 35, Mundo Marino said. The mammal spent 33 years in a marine ...

Killer whales in aquariums regularly eat ice cubes, even though ice provides no calories or nutrients. It's a curious ...