Since orcas “see” with sound, researchers wanted to understand how ship noise in the Salish Sea, off the west coast of the U.S. and Canada, affects their hunting. So they tagged 25 orcas from ...

When an orca hunts salmon, it clicks and buzzes. It sends a beam of sounds from its nasal passages into the murky depths in ...

The Salish Sea is too noisy for the critically endangered southern resident orcas to hunt successfully, according to a new ...

A pod of orcas rammed a sailboat and bit off chunks of the ship’s rudder off the coast of northwestern Spain, prompting a bungled rescue mission that resulted in the one of the boaters being ...

The Salish Sea—the inland coastal waters of Washington and British Columbia—is home to two unique populations of fish-eating ...

Research reveals that underwater noise pollution hinders orca hunting efficiency. Southern resident orcas, affected more by ...

orcas may just be having some fun. The other, new, theory comes from the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute in Spain, which has been tracking the orca ship rammings since 2020. It has found ...

Whale experts, marine biologists, and animal rights activists have been sounding the alarm for some time. Man-made ocean noise is said to have devastating consequences for marine life. A study has now ...