Senator Patty Murray met with the SeaDoc Society and Eba the Orca Tracking Dog to discuss research efforts funded by recent ...

Toñi, the oldest known Iberian orca, surfaced in the Strait of Gibraltar with wounds conservationists believe were caused by shotgun pellets.

Conservationists fear Toñi, the oldest known female in the tiny Iberian orca population, may have been deliberately shot ...

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in another sign of ...

A team of researchers has found that orcas can imitate human speech patterns as well. They taught an orca named Wikie to ...

There are only 73 southern resident orcas left in Puget Sound, according to the most recent count released by the Center for Whale Research. It is one of the lowest tallies since the center counted 71 ...

Orcas have been known to slap around stingrays, punt seals into the air and otherwise play with their food. But killer whales don’t just toy with live prey. Some also seem to enjoy destroying the ...

How hard do you have to ram a fish to make it explode? Ask an orca. Barreling into large, heavy fish with enough force to blast them into instant chum is a previously unknown collaborative feeding ...