Only two places in the world allow tourists to enter the water with the ocean’s apex predator. But the safety of both species is a growing concern. An orca near the shoreline of Baja California Sur, ...

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Killer Whale is a gripping survival thriller centred around best friends, Trish (Virginia Gardner, FALL) and Maddie (Mel Jarnson, MORTAL KOMBAT), who find themselves locked into a deadly face-off ...

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When the film “Free Willy” captured hearts worldwide in 1993, few viewers realized they were watching a real orca with his own remarkable story. Behind the cinematic tale of a boy helping a captive ...

A rare whale sighting was spotted off the coast of Massachusetts. On Monday, a video of a killer whale on Stellwagen Bank was posted to Facebook. The video of the orca quickly gained popularity after ...

A killer whale was seen swimming up the Siuslaw River from the Oregon Coast. Experts say killer whales entering Oregon's bays and rivers is not an uncommon event. The city of Florence was abuzz with ...

When tourists travel to Seattle, it's common to take in the Space Needle and the downtown skyline from Puget Sound. It's an itinerary that a newly arrived pod of killer whales appears to be following ...

The FDA has delayed its target decision date for Orca Bio’s blood cancer cell therapy candidate Orca-T by three months to July 6. The review extension comes after the company submitted additional data ...

Many of the orcas captured and sent to marine theme parks in the 1960s and 1970s came from the Pacific Northwest. An incident 50 years ago this month changed that. A staffer in then-Washington ...

The mystery orcas are back in the Puget Sound. For the last few weeks, a pod of unfamiliar orcas has been coming and going from the waters around Seattle and British Columbia, delighting whale ...

Some researchers think that two varieties of orcas are so different that they should be considered separate species. Olivier Morin / AFP via Getty Images In August 2022, a large, bloody fin covered in ...