Since then, the sound has been recorded multiple times in multiple locations. In 2016, a team at Oregon State University ...

"It's a fascinating discovery." Scientists sound the alarm after detecting worrisome behavior of killer whales: 'Such a thing ...

When we think of orcas, who also go by “killer whales” (Orcinus orca), we imagine them hunting seals, penguins or maybe even ...

Whales mistake plastic debris for food due to similar signals. Plastic items mimic squid acoustically, contributing to ...

But the biotwang was an entirely new whale sound, so Harrell and Allen had to figure out how to integrate it into what has become an open source multi-species model. "We only have eight particular ...

Whale researchers on Saturday spotted orcas that are part of the endangered Southern  Resident pod back in the Puget Sound.

Since 2014, scientists have listened to a unique whale vocalization they call a “biotwang.” The call, which sounds a bit like ...

Southern resident killer whales of the Pacific are declining, with both adult and offspring numbers dropping dramatically.

sharks and other species of whales. While other populations prey mostly on marine mammals, the southern resident killer whales of Puget Sound subsist largely on Chinook salmon. THREATS: The stresses ...

The charismatic killer whale, or orca, is the totem species of northwest Washington and coastal British ... the West Coast known as the Southern Resident orcas (also called Puget Sound orcas and, as ...

These sounds are transmitted to the surrounding ... which spans the range of 'clicks' that different species of deep-diving whales employ. For comparison, they also tested real (but dead) squid ...

These sounds are transmitted to the surrounding water by the ... which spans the range of 'clicks' that different species of deep-diving whales employ. For comparison, they also tested real (but dead) ...