An endangered North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted splashing in waters off of New York City last week — ...

It was a whale of a surprise. An endangered North Atlantic right whale and her calf were spotted splashing in waters off of New York City last week — marking an exceptional visit from a rare ...

Over time, that name morphed into "killer whales." Scientists don't know whether orcas kill for fun. The marine mammals do some things, like killing and tossing dead porpoises in the air ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers say they can now spot those underwater baby bumps from the air and keep ...

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

Kayaker Adrián Simancas is speaking out after he was briefly stuck inside the mouth of a whale that attempted to swallow him off the coast of Chile.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Some baleen whale species sing at frequencies below 100 hertz, making their calls undetectable to killer whales, which cannot hear such low frequencies. These ...

Six environmental groups are suing two federal ministers over a delay in issuing an emergency-order recommendation to protect B.C.’s endangered killer whale population. The legal action ...

Six environmental groups are suing two federal ministers over a delay in issuing an emergency-order recommendation to protect B.C.’s endangered killer whale population. The legal action, filed Monday ...

For a second time, the world watched as Tahlequah, an endangered southern resident killer whale, struggled to keep her dead newborn calf afloat in the Salish Sea. But with Ottawa failing to take ...

Rutgers University scientists are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in a new way, one they hope can help protect one of the world's most endangered whale species, the North American ...