Recently, a male orca known as J27, or “Blackberry,” was photographed in Washington’s Puget Sound wearing a salmon on his head, and many observers declared that the trend had returned.

Orcas have a language of their own. They communicate through touch, movement, and most importantly, sound. And it's marine scientist Ellyne Hamran's job to eavesdrop on them. Hamran is an acoustic ...

The groundbreaking research, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, set out to determine how flexible killer whales could be in learning unfamiliar sounds. Wikie, a 14-year-old orca in a ...

He served 20 years as secretary of state, ushering in seismic changes to Washington elections. But he is defined as much by ...

A pod of orcas, also known as "killer whales," treated spectators to a display as they stealthily hunted for birds off the ...

Multiple pods of orcas have been spotted in Puget Sound in recent days, according to the Orca Conservancy.