The cable deployed in Haro Strait can be divided into what scientists call "virtual hydrophones" — discrete listening points ...

Footage posted to Reddit shows an orca ramming and lifting a small sailboat, rocking it violently as onlookers record in ...

In a rare and unexpected revelation, orcas in the Salish Sea have been observed using tools for purposes other than hunting. The discovery, published in Current Biology on June 23, 2025, marks the ...

Killer whales—it's rare to see them,” he says. As the boat was sinking, Quieroz says it was towed back to shore and the crew on board was unharmed. Experts say their behavior is more likely play than ...

Behavioral ecologist Michael Weiss was browsing through new drone footage of the orca pods he studies in the Salish Sea when he spotted one of the killer whales carrying something green in its mouth ...

Killer whales have joined the rare club of animals that can make and use tools, for the first time being observed crafting a kind of brush out of kelp and then using it on fellow pod members. The feat ...

An orca started a fad in the summer of 1987 when it killed a salmon and returned to the surface with the dead fish draped on top of its head. For a few pods of killer whales in the Puget Sound area of ...