A whale watching boat recently spotted a large group of orcas, also called killer whales, off the northern Channel Islands.

Orcas, or killer whales, are deadly and beautiful apex predators.

A group of surfers were surprised – and scared – when a pod of orcas showed up at a remote wave on an Alaskan Island in the ...

They are big. They are beautiful. And they are back. The return of the humpback whale to greater numbers than observed in decades is part of a larger revival of marine mammals in the Salish Sea. It is ...

This is something few people ever get to witness… a Hawaiian false killer whale in action; hunting, chasing, and successfully ...

Elephant calves stay very close to their mothers for several years, typically nursing for two to four years, but often ...

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, ...

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 ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

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 killer whales of the Salish Sea, off the coast of British Columbia and Washington State, are perhaps the most well-studied marine mammals in the world. For over 50 years, researchers have taken ...