Nine northern resident killer whales off Vancouver Island were filmed and acoustically tagged during a summer field season, ...

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(CBS News) A newly released video, shown at a government court hearing in September, shows a killer whale dragging her trainer underwater and holding him there at a 2006 SeaWorld San Diego show. The ...

First observed in the 1980s, the fad of orcas swimming around with dead salmon on their foreheads off Washington State seemed to have faded—until now. An orca from the southern resident population off ...

A new study has shown that whale calls are reduced by as much as 50% in response to seismic surveys, which are commonly used to find oil and gas reserves. Researchers are worried that such surveys ...

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SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. — As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea.