Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drone footage from a 2019 research survey shows a young male orca known as A99 “Alder" with a dead salmon on his head. A recent ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – One fashion trend from the ’80s may be making a comeback – at least with killer whales. An orca has been spotted wearing a salmon hat for the first time since 1987. On October ...

A killer whale surfaces beside a small boat, a freshly caught fish clamped in its jaws. It releases the fish near the hull, ...

Orcas — also known as killer whales — are once again on the offensive. Their new target is whale sharks, the world's largest fish species. According to CNN, a new study — published in the journal ...

DEVISED A NEW STRATEGY TO KILL THE WORLD’S LARGEST FISH. FOR THE FIRST TIME, MARINE SCIENTISTS ARE SEEING HOW ORCAS HUNT WHALE SHARKS. AUTHORS OF A NEW STUDY ANALYZED FOUR SEPARATE HUNTING EVENTS IN A ...

A killer whale was spotted balancing a salmon on its head earlier this fall near the coastline in Washington state, surprising scientists and intriguing orca watchers. The critically endangered ...

In the sunlit waters of the Gulf of California, a showdown that rivals even the most famed WWE matchup has been apparently going down under our noses. A fascinating, yet unsettling behavior, the ...

The end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 brought some bittersweet calf news as well as an exciting update for the community that follows Southern Resident killer whales, also known as orcas. The Center ...

SEATTLE (KOMO) — A young female J pod orca calf recently spotted by the Center for Whale Research (CWR) in Puget Sound has now been confirmed by the organization to be the offspring of Tahlequah, the ...

The appearance of a new orca calf in Washington’s Puget Sound last month was cause for celebration. The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident population ...