DANA POINT (CBSLA) — A rare gray baby orca was spotted by a whale-watching excursion out of Dana Point this weekend. The calf, which is believed to be just a month old, was frolicking Sunday ...

With their iconic black and white markings, orcas (Orcinus orca), also known as killer whales, are an iconic sea mammal thanks to the 1993 film “Free Willy” and their controversial presence at ...

Kekaimalu, whose name means "from the peaceful ocean," was born 19 years ago after a surprise coupling between a 14-foot, 2,000-pound false killer whale and a 6-foot, 400-pound dolphin.

Last year, a grieving killer whale in the J Pod of southern resident killer whales carried her baby for 17 days and 1,000 miles after the calf died minutes after being born. The sad story captured ...

SEATTLE — Whale researchers are celebrating the newest member of a population of endangered killer whales that frequent Puget Sound in Washington state. The baby orca spotted over the weekend in ...

Alisa Schulman-Janiger, co-founder of the California Killer Whale Project, had heard about the baby gray orca when it was first spotted in Monterey on Aug. 16, likely just after it had been born.

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 ...

A group of Southern Resident Killer Whale has been spotted off the coast of Monterey, California, making an over 1,000-mile trek from their home waters in the Pacific Northwest. Members of the L ...

There's a new face - well, fin - in the waters around Seattle. The little black swoosh cutting through the waves is the unmistakable sign of an orca. And the birth of a baby orca whale excited ...

Nancy Black, who co-owns Monterey Bay Whale Watch, says killer whales are on an unprecedented killing spree in the bay, attacking and feeding on gray whale calves. Biologist: Orca attacks on gray ...