ANTIBES, France -- In what they call a world first, researchers in Europe say they've taught an orca whale to successfully imitate a variety of sounds, including calls made by other animal species and ...

Learn more about the techniques a research team used to record the songs of the elusive beaked whale in Brazil.

A baby orca has been spotted with the Puget Sound population of killer whales. The new arrival -- scientists don't know yet if it's male or female -- brings the number of orcas up to 86. The ...

This is the first time pack-ice killer whale vocalizations have been recorded. Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and ...

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 ...

Whale watchers are rejoicing as more sightings of killer whales have been happening around Puget Sound. Experts told KIRO 7 that we’re seeing both Southern Residents and Transient or Biggs around the ...

SEATTLE —For more than a century, killer whales have been understood to be just one worldwide species, Orcinus orca, with many types. But now, after decades of work, scientists have determined the ...

In recent years, one of the most interesting families of West Coast Bigg’s orcas for local whale watching is the T65A pod. These killer whales spend considerable time in the Salish Sea hunting marine ...

There are two species of killer whale found in the Salish Sea — they are Bigg’s killer whales, the marine mammal-eaters, and southern resident killer whales, that eat salmon. The two subspecies could ...

(AP) Killer whales that spend their summers in Puget Sound are a distinct population group and will remain protected under the Endangered Species Act, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...