This is the heroic moment a beached orca whale was rescued in Crime. Footage shows authorities using heavy equipment to free the killer whale, which had become trapped in a shallow inlet in the Sea of ...

Footage shows a killer whale that appeared to have been injured during a performance at an aquarium bleeding by the side of the pool. The video, filmed at Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park, shows the orca ...

An endangered orca vanished from a dwindling whale pod off the Washington coast, a conservation group said. The missing ...

Controversies over what was best for Keiko raged for years, and now the story of the orca is being told again, in a new podcast, “The Good Whale,” from The New York Times and Serial ...

Killer whales hunt fish with clicks and buzzes—they choose and chase their prey with sound waves. But a mundane feature of ...

After more than 50 years, Southern Resident orcas were spotted in Penn Cove. It’s the exact place where tragedy struck in the ...

Whether out of forgiveness, fading memory or just simple animal behavior, the Southern Resident orcas’ L pod — one of three ...

During a three-hour-long watch for whales, dolphins and birds, wildlife experts off the coast of New Jersey made a tremendous ...

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a ...

Once the attack is successful, killer whales will devour the carcass among them. Another serious threat to blue whales has been humans. In the ages preceding the rise of the whaling industry, humans ...

Southern Resident killer whales, or orcas, are a beloved icon of the Pacific Northwest. We served on Governor Jay Inslee's Southern Resident Killer Whale Recovery Task Force, which developed proposals ...

The investigation into the whale carcass was triggered by a complaint in August from the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund, which accused Kennedy of violating the Endangered Species Act ...