Footage posted to Reddit shows an orca ramming and lifting a small sailboat, rocking it violently as onlookers record in ...
The stakes are high. The Southern Resident orcas are endangered and face a triple threat: underwater noise pollution, toxic ...
The endangered whales face multiple threats, from a lack of their primary food, chinook salmon, to underwater noise from vessels that makes it harder to hunt, as well as pollution and inbreeding.
Orcas don’t follow a fixed migration pattern. Instead, they move where food is most abundant, hunting seals, sea lions and ...
(Editor's Note: This story has been altered. The original version of this story misidentified Terry Wright of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission.) Imagine someone coming to your neighborhood ...
It's been a strong business year for the nation's theme parks, with a notable exception: SeaWorld. The company, which has parks in San Diego, San Antonio and Orlando, Fla., saw its attendance drop in ...
Monika Wieland Shields, Director of the Orca Behavior Institute, has observed orcas in the Salish Sea, a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean located in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the ...
The latest survey of endangered southern resident killer whales confirms their plateau and gradual slide toward disappearance ...
The Miami Seaquarium announced in March that the orca was set to be returned to the waters in the Pacific Northwest after 53 years in captivity Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Lolita, ...
Authorities say boaters who encounter orcas at sea should try their best to sail away, remembering that they’re guests passing through orcas’ critically needed habitat—and that that despite their name ...
Join us on an exhilarating journey as we dive into the icy waters, where temperatures plummet to 3°C, to encounter the ...