Across the world’s oceans, killer whales share the same striking black‑and‑white look yet live radically different lives.

A well-known male killer whale was spotted June 9 traveling alone through Yaquina Bay and along the central Oregon coast, drawing attention from researchers, photographers and onlookers as he hunted ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

The species Orcinus orca, generally known as orcas or killer whales, is made up of many genetically distinct populations ...

A pod of four transient killer whales — including a calf — was spotted Sunday, May 10, 2025, swimming out of the Yaquina River toward the ocean. It’s the latest in a steady stream of orca sightings ...