The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was ...

The J, K, and L pods make up the small population of Southern Resident killer whales that's left in the wild. The whales' ...

The cable deployed in Haro Strait can be divided into what scientists call "virtual hydrophones" — discrete listening points ...

While orcas, also known as "killer whales," are a common sight in the northeast Pacific Ocean, they’re rarely detected in the ...

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

The possible sighting of a calf among a pair of female orcas off the Isles of Scilly has sparked excitement among marine wildlife experts. The Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust said boatman Joe Pender ...

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.

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The new baby, J64, arrived about a week after another calf in the pod was spotted dead in September. Researchers say only ...

A new species of killer whale has been discovered off the southern coast of Chile. Researchers from San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography say the whales look distinctly different than orcas.