Killer whales may all look alike, but molecular biology indicates there are at least three distinct species of orca and maybe five or more, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Genome Research ...

John Ford still recalls the first time he heard them. He’d been puttering around the Deserters Group archipelago, a smattering of spruce- and cedar-choked islands in Queen Charlotte Strait, between ...

SEATTLE — An orca species unique to the Northwest and closely connected to indigenous populations is struggling to survive. The Southern Resident Killer Whales, or SRKW, currently have a population of ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that have “baleen” in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales ...

Scientists have classified orcas as “data deficient” on conservation lists. These are the questions that keep them up at night. These killer whales seen off the continental shelf of northeastern New ...

3/4/25 - SOUTHERN RESIDENT KILLER WHALES IN MONTEREY BAY!We had an absolutely amazing day with K Pod and likely others today (thank you to Center for Whale Research for help with the IDs, as well as ...

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.

The sighting of a baby killer whale in British Columbia has given researchers a sign of hope for the endangered species. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, April 8, the Center for Whale Research announced ...