The sighting excites the researchers, but it also sounds alarms. Scientists stunned after whales make extraordinary ...

A rare and surprising visitor made its presence known off the coast of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on March 13, 2025—a killer ...

"It is nicely filled out and appears to be a perfectly normal little calf," Dave Ellifrit, an expert with the Center for Whale Research, said of the new orca arrival A family of endangered ...

In 2021, researchers identified a new whale species and are now scrambling to save their natural habitat By Danna Staaf This adult Rice's whale skull at the National Museum of Natural History is ...

SEATTLE — A new orca calf spotted in the Puget Sound last week is part of the family of the last killer whale captured in United States waters. The new Bigg's, or mammal-hunting, orca calf was ...

KITTY HAWK, N.C. (WAVY) — Munching on a delicious tuna, an orca whale was seen making a visit to the Outer Banks, as a Florida-based aerial survey team with Clearwater Marine Aquarium confirmed ...

KITTY HAWK, N.C. (WAVY) – A survey crew that has spent the past five years tracking whale locations just had their first orca sighting — off the coast of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

NAGS HEAD, N.C. — It's not every day, every month or every year that an orca is spotted off the coast ... the lead for the North Carolina Right Whale Aerial Survey Team. That was Meghan Bradley ...

SeaWorld Orlando now faces a fine after a trainer was injured while interacting with an orca whale in September 2024, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The department's Occupational ...

The U.S. Department of Labor said on Monday that it cited SeaWorld Orlando for a September 2024 incident that involved a trainer getting injured during an exercise with an Orca whale. The ...