A new report calls for urgent and bold action to aid in the recovery of endangered southern resident killer whales. Despite two decades of protection under both Canadian and U.S. legislation, this ...

Birdwatch Ireland identifies 73 key seabird areas, urging government action for protection and conservation amid rising ...

Twenty years ago, Seal Island was “the greatest place on earth to see great whites,” recalls Hammerschlag, who also serves as ...

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

A study published in the journal Oceans details the remarkable chance encounter between a group of citizen scientists on a ...

Orcas, often called killer whales, are majestic apex predators of the ocean, and encountering one in the wild is a moment that most will never forget. In this video, we bring you 7 incredible orca ...

According to a May publication in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases, researchers at UH Mānoa and the College of Tropical ...

Killer Whales/Orcas (Orcinus orca) Tveir orca hoppa upp úr vatninu. Mynd eftir Robert Pittman, 640px-Killerwhales_jumping í gegnum Wikimedia Commons. Orcas consistently rank among the most researched ...

What's being done about this? Scientists are working to understand and protect these whale families in their expanded range. Researchers like Dr. Angus Henderson from the University of Tasmania told ...

What's happening? Researchers analyzed 11,700 years of data on bowhead whale habitats. They found that, historically, bowhead whales have depended on summer sea ice to find food. However, as Arctic ...

According to a peer-reviewed paper in Science Advances, while southern right whales – the Southern Hemisphere “cousins” of North Atlantic right whales – have a median lifespan of 74 years ...