Scientists from the University of Washington recently deployed a little over 1 mile of fiber-optic cable in the Salish Sea to ...

The stakes are high. The Southern Resident orcas are endangered and face a triple threat: underwater noise pollution, toxic ...

New study links shipping noise pollution to higher mortality, lower birth rates for killer whales, but offers market solutions to address it.

The endangered whales face multiple threats, from a lack of their primary food, chinook salmon, to underwater noise from vessels that makes it harder to hunt, as well as pollution and inbreeding.

A group of orcas off the coast of California has honed a brutal set of hunting skills. Trapping prey near an underwater canyon, they flip, drown, ram, and slap their targets to death. Killer whales ...

The technology would allow researchers to detect the sounds of orcas and other mammals with high-frequency vocalizations ...

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Scientists discovered that a pod of orcas have developed a new method for killing whale sharks, the world's largest fish. Scientists have believed that killer whales, or ...

John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between ...

That may be the strategy behind a fascinating new analysis of the impact giant merchant ships have on killer whale populations. It is a proposal written by M. Scott Taylor and published by the ...

SEATTLE – A pod of orcas swam close to shore and amazed onlookers in Seattle by treating the whale watchers to the rare sight of the apex predators hunting a bird. The pod of Bigg’s killer whales ...