With breaches and tail slapping, a pod of orca whales put on a show near Seattle on Friday. The close encounter attracted ...

A new orca calf was spotted with the J pod Thursday, bring the population of the Southern Resident killer whales up to 76. Center for Whale Research Executive Director Ken Balcomb officially ...

During a mid-January blue-sky day, a pod of orcas put on a show for dozens of onlookers in West Seattle on Friday.

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada — The Center for Whale Research (CWR) confirmed this week that a newborn orca calf, J64, is believed to have died about a week after being first spotted with the endangered ...

A wildlife photographer out on a whale watching trip in waters off Seattle captured dramatic video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a seal that survived only by clambering onto the stern ...

An orca calf named J64, a part of the ‘J’ Pod last seen near the Swanson Channel between Victoria, BC and Washington, is most likely deceased, according to the Center for Whale Research. On October 23 ...

As the whale watching boat slowly approached, the passengers saw something strange in the water—an 80-foot cloud of red-brown liquid. Just minutes later, an orca hurled a small whale into the air.

This story was supported by grants from the Pulitzer Center and the Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism, in partnership with The Seattle Times and Northern Journal. Second of three parts.