Toothed whale. Distribution Nearly everywhere except far northern waters. Worldwide in arctic and tropical waters. The main differences between a blue whale and a killer whale are that blue whales are ...

Experts said there has never been a sighting of a true albino whale of any species in Hawaii. There have been more common ...

Whale watchers are crossing their fingers for another glimpse of what could be an albino whale. “We noticed there was a white ...

The baby killer whale is the fourth born into the Southern Resident killer whale population in the past 12 months Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

Tourists and researchers witnessed a pod of orcas hunt and kill an endangered pygmy blue whale. © Robert Pittman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Every summer ...

Now numbering just 73 whales, the southern residents are the only orca population listed as endangered. But their focus changed when they learned of a female member of the population that had been ...

including the image below identifying one of the whales as having black eyes. Snopes has looked into other online rumors involving killer whales, including the false claim that radiation from ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Southern resident orcas from the L Pod made a rare appearance near Depoe Bay on March 24. The sighting coincided with Oregon’s Whale Watch Week, hosted each year by ...

Orcas are toothed whales and are closely related to narwhals and belugas, sperm whales, beaked whales, dolphins, and porpoises. They are massive, and male orcas can weigh up to 22,000 pounds.

KITTY HAWK, N.C. (WAVY) – A survey crew that has spent the past five years tracking whale locations just had their first orca sighting — off the coast of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

SEATTLE — A new orca calf spotted in the Puget Sound last week is part of the family of the last killer whale captured in United States waters. The new Bigg's, or mammal-hunting, orca calf was ...