Researchers are investigating the sighting of three killer whales in Puget Sound that do not match any known regional ...

For the first time in more than 50 years, a pod of killer whales has been spotted swimming in a notorious part of Washington's Puget Sound. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's called Penn Cove, and it's known ...

There are two species of killer whale found in the Salish Sea — they are Bigg’s killer whales, the marine mammal-eaters, and southern resident killer whales, that eat salmon. The two subspecies could ...

In what’s becoming a less frequent — though still stunning — event, all three family groups of the region’s endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales recently visited the Puget Sound. Members of the ...

SEATTLE —For more than a century, killer whales have been understood to be just one worldwide species, Orcinus orca, with many types. But now, after decades of work, scientists have determined the ...

Two Bigg’s killer whales play in the waters of the Puget Sound. Melisa Pinnow, San Juan Excursions Both are setting records this year, but in opposite ways. Keeping up with a decade-long trend, Bigg’s ...