ANTIBES, France — A female orca at a marine park in France has learned a handful of words and can mimic human language, according to scientists. The 16-year-old killer whale, named Wikie, can say ...

Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species ...

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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 ...

Three orcas that had not previously been recorded in the Seattle area have delighted whale watchers with several visits.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Resident orcas of the J pod are pictured in an undated photo. (Marla Smith, Orca Network/Courtesy to The Bellingham ...

A new J-Pod orca calf was spotted last week in the Puget Sound, less than two weeks after a mother carried her dead baby near the San Juan Islands. In a Facebook post, the Orca Behavior Institute also ...

Orca watching in the Salish Sea has been on my bucket list for just about my whole life, and since Port Townsend, Washington, ...

GREENBANK, Wash. (AP) - As many as a dozen transient killer whales have been reported in Puget Sound this week, hunting for seals and sea lions. Howard Garrett of the Orca Network in Greenbank said ...

For decades scientists have been intrigued by the variety of sounds emitted by sperm whales, partly due to a popular theory that suggests that the sounds might contain information about the animals' ...