Almost the entire population of southern resident killer whales gathered in central Puget Sound on Sunday, but the newest member of J Pod, a newborn known as J64, was not among them. According to a ...

SEATTLE - Where did they come from? And why are they here? Those are the questions researchers are asking as a small pod of unfamiliar killer whales moves through the Salish Sea. Mysterious orca ...

First observed in the 1980s, the fad of orcas swimming around with dead salmon on their foreheads off Washington State seemed to have faded—until now. An orca from the southern resident population off ...

Orca watching in the Salish Sea has been on my bucket list for just about my whole life, and since Port Townsend, Washington, is my favorite small town on the west coast, I recently decided to embark ...

Southern Resident orcas of the J pod are pictured in an undated photo. Marla Smith, Orca Network Courtesy to The Bellingham Herald Boaters are being asked to practice vigilance in Puget Sound as ...

A new pod of killer whales has been captivating observers in Seattle, making several unexpected appearances in Puget Sound this past month. Three orcas, previously unrecorded in the area, have been ...

J2, aka "Granny," is on the right, in a photo taken by drone in September. She's about to catch that salmon and feed it to J45, whose mother had just died. Granny herself went missing in October.