Many of the orcas captured and sent to marine theme parks in the 1960s and 1970s came from the Pacific Northwest. An incident ...

Orcas acted as primary scouts by actively seeking out baleen whales and alerting the whalers by breaching and slapping their tails at the mouth of the river. This 90-year alliance proves that Orcas ...

Ask anyone who’s had encounters with killer whales, and they will tell you just how smart they are. Orcas are incredibly intelligent creatures, capable of complex hunting strategies. They also engage ...

In 2021 and 2023, hundreds of dolphins were stranded in shallow waters in San Antonio Bay in northern Patagonia. Some died, but many were returned safely to the sea. But what remained a mystery until ...

Orcas in Alaska's Prince William Sound and Kenai Fjords have a diverse, seasonally changing diet of salmon and groundfish, consumed across regional foraging hotspots. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock ...

Orcas, or killer whales, are deadly and beautiful apex predators. Fact check: Is Donald Trump the most unpopular president ever? Spanish police find body amid search for missing US student A US F-35 ...

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Killer whales are widely considered the ocean’s ultimate predators, occupying the very top of the marine food web. Yet new evidence suggests that the greatest threat to some killer whales may come ...

It’s long been thought that the Southern Resident orcas that live in our region have no predators, but a new article in Live Science suggests that non-resident orcas, or Bigg’s orcas, might be eating ...

ALBANY — It’s a whale of a bill. The State Senate unanimously passed legislation Thursday meant to educate boaters traveling around New York City and Long Island about some of the largest animals on ...