New UW research points to changing prey supplies and shifting patterns among southern resident pods and transient killer ...

The findings come as videos of several killer whales near the Ballard Locks and Discovery Park generated buzz online early this week.

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In September of 2016, the oldest living orca known to science, J2, was photographed near San Juan Island from a drone. Matriarch of the southern residents, a population of killer whales that lives in ...

Data spanning nearly half a century shows that endangered southern resident killer whales are spending less time in inland waters, whereas their larger cousins, Bigg’s killer whales, are increasingly ...

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three unidentified orcas have been spotted in the Salish Sea in March 2026. Tamara Kelley, Orca Conservancy The killer whales of ...

The charismatic killer whale, or orca, is the totem species of northwest Washington and coastal British Columbia. This intelligent, social predator is known to form lasting social bonds and lives in ...