Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers are investigating the sighting of three killer whales in Puget Sound that do not match any known regional catalogs.

Marine life researchers are tracking a mysterious pod of orcas recently spotted moving through the Salish Sea.

Three unknown orcas have been spotted in Vancouver Harbour and more recently near Seattle, sparking the excitement of western ...

A dolphin murder mystery is playing out on Patagonia’s shores: multiple mass strandings, with scores of dolphins washing up for no easily discernable reason. In one such event in 2021, for example, 52 ...

— Hole in Breakers: Last night city police officers responded to a call that a green pick-up truck had struck the Breaker’s Bar. Upon arrival they were told that the truck had traveled up the sidewalk ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called resident orcas, stay in such large family groups ...

A familiar tall black dorsal fin broke the surface of the water near the WestRock Tacoma Paper Mill this week and attracted the attention of photographers.

If ever there was a beautiful, must-visit American town, Port Townsend, Washington, has to be it. Located at the northeastern tip of the Olympic Peninsula on the Puget Sound in Washington, Port ...

In 1999 hundreds of gray whales washed up along the west coast of North America. More in 2000. They lost an estimated 25% of their population. But then the whale population recovered and people moved ...

Washington State Senate heard testimony on House Bill 1923, the Mosquito Fleet Act, which would empower counties, port districts, transit agencies and other local jurisdictions to establish ...

Animals on land and sea use sound for different purposes – and alterations in their environment can change the effect it has ...

Historically, killer whale diet research relied on surface sampling of prey fragments, usually scales, helping researchers to determine primarily salmon species. Newer techniques that analyze DNA in ...