A baby orca has been spotted with the Puget Sound population of killer whales. The new arrival -- scientists don't know yet if it's male or female -- brings the number of orcas up to 86. The ...

Lately, Fred Sharpe has been focusing on whale noises that can be heard at the surface. He says they're understudied compared ...

Sounds made by humpback whales as they passed through the ocean off Oahu, Hawaii, were captured on camera in recent days. Mark Healey, who recorded the mesmerising audio, said he could hear them when ...

A new baby orca born to J Pod is a ray of hope for the endangered southern resident killer whales. J63 was spotted by Mark Malleson, field biologist for the Center for Whale Research, on April 6. J ...

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A peachy-colored baby killer whale was seen bonding and socializing with her family off Washington, drone footage shows. The endangered calf, J-62, was filmed during a Feb. 17 encounter off San Juan ...

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - Dolphins, porpoises, killer whales, sperm whales and other toothed whales produce an array of sounds - to find prey employing a sonar-like system called echolocation ...

In a groundbreaking revelation, researchers have discovered that sperm whales communicate using vowel-like sounds, a characteristic previously thought to be unique to human speech. This study, led by ...

The J pod of endangered southern resident orcas has a new baby. Researchers Maya and Mark Sears spotted a new calf with J pod on Tuesday. The Center for Whale Research hadn’t spotted the baby in ...

The bereaved whale mother who made headlines when she heartbreakingly grieved her dead baby for more than two weeks has given birth to a new calf, scientists said. The mama orca, named J35 by ...