A federal appeals court is reinstating rules designed to protect a vanishing whale species from entanglement in fishing gear.

The endangered southern resident killer whales that visit Puget Sound were listed for protection under the federal Endangered ...

There was excitement among whale watchers after a rarely seen pod of killer whales was spotted off the coast of Orange County on Thursday, January 30, in the first documented appearance of the pod in ...

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

For the first time, DNA evidence has confirmed killer whales in Australia hunted a white shark for its liver. Based on DNA ...

The 39-foot gray whale carcass was discovered floating off Marina del Rey on Saturday with most of its head missing.

Early Sunday a juvenile gray whale that was killed by orcas off Los Angeles County washed ashore on Dockweiler State Beach.

Alisa Schulman-Janiger, director of the ACS-LA Gray Whale Census and Behavior Project, told FTW Outdoors that Jean Huber and Christy Varni discovered the floating carcass at mid-morning less than a ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, ...

The documentary tells the story of the last southern resident killer whale held in captivity, and the efforts of two Lummi women to bring the orca home to a net pen sanctuary.

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