Southern Resident killer whales are a small and well-studied group of orcas that have long been seen as an isolated group without much outside connection. New research challenges that view, ...
As scientists scramble to learn more about them, questions abound over what drove these mystery orcas into the Salish Sea, ...
Orcas are one of the most familiar forms of sea life, but in the wild, they are increasingly rare. Off the coast of Port Angeles in Washington state, a team has whale watching down to a science. For ...
NEWPORT, Ore. (KTVZ) – As sea ice declines in the Arctic, bowhead whales are staying north of the Bering Strait more frequently, a shift that could affect the long-term health of the bowhead ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – With ice declining, bowhead whales of the Pacific Arctic are staying longer in the waters up north. A change in migration patterns could affect the bowheads’ health and safety, as ...
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 ...
Gray whale strandings, which occur during the spring months when whales migrate past the Washington coast, are happening at a higher rate than this time in past years. The strandings began on April 2 ...