An underwater hydrophone at Bush Point on Whidbey Island is transmitting the noise beneath the surface of Puget Sound right now. Scientists installed it to pick up sounds from the Southern Resident ...

If you care about Puget Sound's resident orcas, The Whale Trail's winter gathering is the place to be this Thursday night, ...

A U.S.-based research team has documented a rare glimpse of Bigg's killer whales engaging in some unusual behaviour, ...

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 ...

Imagine hearing a killer whale say "hello" or "bye-bye"—it sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie, but this phenomenon is backed by science. A 2018 study has revealed that orcas, one of the ocean's ...

Members of the J Pod were spotted Tuesday afternoon off Blake Island as we learn that a member of the K Pod has likely died. The news about the missing orca comes from the Center For Whale Research on ...

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 ...

On Saturday, the endangered J pod made a stop in Puget Sound for the first time since April. The Orca Network’s Whale Sighting Network confirmed the Southern Resident orca pod was seen between Whidbey ...

Nobody is safe from Orcas. The latest animal to feel the wrath of the ocean's most persistent menace are seabirds in ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Orca sightings around Puget Sound have been on the rise the last couple months, according to a whale expert. "The stars aligned, the planets aligned, everything in the universe just worked ...

The new orca calf is the first calf to be born into the K pod since 2022, according to the Orca Conservancy. SEATTLE — A new orca calf was spotted in Puget Sound on Tuesday afternoon, which is the ...