Sound Transit’s Executive Committee postponed a decision on a new CEO amid mounting criticism of the process and the possible ...

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

When the weather turns warmer, tourists flock to Anacortes for a little taste of the mariner life and one of the area's most ...

There is no prototypical octopus, just as there is no prototypical dog. A new book explains how these alien, blue-blooded, ...

Columbia, South Carolina (AP) — Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the US in 15 years ...

The Center for Whale Research says it has confirmed a new killer whale calf in a pod of endangered orcas that live off B.C.'s southwest coast is female. It's a piece of good news for J-pod ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing more than 150 false killer whales that stranded on a remote beach on Australia’s island state of Tasmania, officials ...

Australian authorities are to euthanise scores of false killer whales left suffering on a beach after a mass stranding in remote Tasmania. Marine experts said today that they have given up hope of ...