Beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) have also displayed mouth-to-mouth interactions in the wild. During a study on captive ...

Once thriving, there are now believed to be just 73 Southern Resident killer whales left in Washington state's Puget Sound.

Underwater contact makes up most of orcas’ social life, yet scientists traditionally watch from boats and count surface cues: ...

They amuse us by wearing salmon hats, enrage us by sinking our expensive yachts, and now they have been documented sharing their meals with us – why?

Prior to this instance, the “tongue-nibbling” had only been observed a handful of times in captivity. First seen in captive ...

Researchers have documented orcas dropping prey and other marine life in front of humans, as if offering us food. The orcas' ...

Orcas are brilliant creatures. Their brains are highly developed when it comes to problem-solving skills, cognition, and ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is developing a plan to protect Southern Resident orcas, which were added to the ...

To Donald Trump shooting across my bow, “Stopping Radical Environmentalism to generate power for the Columbia River Basin” (Presidential Memorandum June 12).

Dubbed "allokelping," it might be a unique cultural phenomenon that's as endangered as the orca population itself ...

The team ran experiments offering people who returned bottles the option of getting a typical ten-cent payout—or the small ...