Orca attacks on boats are a recent, puzzling phenomenon.Proposed theories include play, stress, learned behaviour, or ...

(Editor's Note: This story has been altered. The original version of this story misidentified Terry Wright of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission.) Imagine someone coming to your neighborhood ...

Experts say the whales seem to learn to play with boats from a young age. "Believe me: if they wanted to sink the boats, they ...

A study from the University of Washington confirms what scientists have long speculated about how marine vessel noise interferes with whales. Female orcas with young calves avoid areas where boat ...

Monika Wieland Shields, Director of the Orca Behavior Institute, has observed orcas in the Salish Sea, a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean located in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the ...

Anti-logging and anti-commercial fishing advocacy groups on May 1 petitioned the federal government to grant endangered species status to a group of Pacific Northwest orcas known as the “southern ...

When an orca hunts salmon, it clicks and buzzes. It sends a beam of sounds from its nasal passages into the murky depths in hopes that the sound waves will bounce back and reveal the location of its ...

The Miami Seaquarium announced in March that the orca was set to be returned to the waters in the Pacific Northwest after 53 years in captivity Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She ...

A Bellingham environmental organization has received a state grant to help with its recent purchase of land to protect and restore habitat in the estuary where California Creek empties into Drayton ...