When the film “Free Willy” captured hearts worldwide in 1993, few viewers realized they were watching a real orca with his own remarkable story. Behind the cinematic tale of a boy helping a captive ...

When the film “Free Willy” captured hearts worldwide in 1993, few viewers realized they were watching a real orca with his own remarkable story. Behind the cinematic tale of a boy helping a captive ...

Killer whales have joined the rare club of animals that can make and use tools, for the first time being observed crafting a kind of brush out of kelp and then using it on fellow pod members.

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd ...

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale calves got there and what happened to them ...

There's new hope in the J Pod of endangered Southern Resident orca whales. A new calf has arrived!

A new orca whale calf spotted in Puget Sound in Washington State is the latest addition to a well-known family of killer whales with a connection to SeaWorld.

SEATTLE — A new orca calf spotted in the Puget Sound last week is part of the family of the last killer whale captured in United States waters. The new Bigg's, or mammal-hunting, orca calf was ...

SeaWorld Orlando now faces a fine after a trainer was injured while interacting with an orca whale in September 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The department's Occupational ...

The U.S. Department of Labor said on Monday that it cited SeaWorld Orlando for a September 2024 incident that involved a trainer getting injured during an exercise with an Orca whale. The ...

A survey crew that has spent the past five years tracking whale locations just had their first orca sighting — off the coast of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

A survey crew that has spent the past five years tracking whale locations just had their first orca sighting — off the coast of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.