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 ...

"The Good Whale" is the new podcast from "The New York Times" and Serial Productions, which explores the years-long journey ...

A new study says persistent organic pollutants in waters off Canada’s East Coast are “dangerously high” for killer whales and ...

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 ...

HALIFAX - A new study says persistent organic ... hierarchy of the different threats for the killer whale specifically, adding that many other whale species face similar challenges.

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 ...

Here’s the scoop on what happens when two heavyweights of the animal kingdom—the killer whale and ... very specific circumstances these two species’ habitats can virtually overlap.