Now numbering just 73 whales, the southern residents are the only orca population listed as endangered. But their focus changed when they learned of a female member of the population that had been ...

Up to that point, Kock had focused her research on sharks - while many of her impressions of killer whales grew out of “Free Willy,” a 1993 movie in which a 12-year-old boy befriends and helps ...

featuring more words than any movie poster ever should and reading: “The killer whale is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man ...

“I’ve only seen this happen on nature channels or in movies so it was definitely ... Though ship strikes, killer whale predation and entanglement are among the most common causes of death ...

More likely, however, it may just be part of the whales’ way of life. Everything an orca does comes from knowledge passed ... A resident of Utah, Kellianne enjoys creating, analyzing movies, wrangling ...

Whales are mammals, which means they are warm-blooded and give ... Illnesses, depression, stillbirths, and premature deaths are common among captive orca populations. Marine parks draw increasingly ...

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

The baby killer whale is the fourth born into the Southern Resident killer whale population in the past 12 months Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

The episode, witnessed off the Australian coast, offers a rare glimpse into the brutal efficiency of the ocean’s top predator.

A killer whale has become a first-time mom after a peachy-orange calf was spotted swimming with her off Washington, a whale watching group said. The baby orca was discovered March 20 in the Salish ...