Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale ...

Members of the marine mammal rescue group Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder walk with a Pygmy killer whale that was found stranded off the beach at Long Key State Park in the Florida Keys on ...

Why it matters: Last month's birth of the male orca known as J60 had bolstered researchers' hopes that the endangered Southern Resident killer whale population might be starting to recover.

A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and stranded just off a beach in the island chain on Sunday, a local marine ...