An underwater hydrophone at Bush Point on Whidbey Island is transmitting the noise beneath the surface of Puget Sound right now. Scientists installed it to pick up sounds from the Southern Resident ...

ANTIBES, France -- In what they call a world first, researchers in Europe say they've taught an orca whale to successfully imitate a variety of sounds, including calls made by other animal species and ...

If you are out on the water in the South Sound this holiday weekend, keep your eyes peeled for some unique visitors. As many as a dozen transient killer whales have been reported in Puget Sound this ...

The mystery orcas are back in the Puget Sound. For the last few weeks, a pod of unfamiliar orcas has been coming and going ...

On March 20, an orca calf was spotted in the Puget Sound. That alone is cause for excitement, but this calf has an interesting story: The calf is related to a killer whale that was captured by ...

The visiting orcas have something that local whales don’t: circular scars left by cookie-cutter sharks, which latch on to ...

The whale exibited what researchers call mourning behavior after the loss of her second calf since 2018. She carried that first dead calf for 17 days. A female killer whale was observed last week ...

A new orca calf was seen swimming with Southern Resident orcas, delighting Puget Sound residents and killer whale researchers alike. A field biologist spotted the calf while traveling with the J Pod ...

As scientists scramble to learn more about them, questions abound over what drove these mystery orcas into the Salish Sea, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers are investigating the sighting of three killer whales in Puget Sound that do not match any known regional catalogs.