Killer whales, also known as orcas, have officially made the Arctic Ocean their home — something that was nearly impossible until now. Historically, thick ice sheets blocked the whales from ...

The whales are now headed north. In just the last two weeks, three gray whales have died in San Francisco Bay, one of which ...

Salmon were once a rare sighting in the Alaskan Arctic. But warming temperatures have made them more common up there, and ...

Their backs and tall dorsal fins glistened in the Arctic twilight as they dived and surfaced and worked in teams to corral, stun, and devour silver herring. At times an orca would smack the ...

She’s 14 years old, and her name means “mother of the sea” in Inuktitut, an indigenous language spoken in the Canadian Arctic ...

Together, Antarctica and the Arctic act as a giant thermostat ... through the eyes of killer whales. Killer whales - or orca - number hundreds of thousands worldwide. But in a remote network ...

Their method uses carbon isotopes of fatty acids to better understand what migratory species, such as killer whales, and Arctic predators, such as polar bears, eat and how they accumulate harmful ...

It analyses the extraordinary 330,000 kilometers of marine surveys conducted by ORCA in 2023, recording 55,604 whales and dolphins in oceans worldwide from the Arctic to the Antarctic, the North ...

She’s 14 years old, and her name means “mother of the sea” in Inuktitut, an indigenous language spoken in the Canadian Arctic. West Coast Bigg’s killer whales — also called Transients ...