William Shatner has sent a passionate message to the French president begging him to save two orcas stuck in an abandoned marine park. They are confined in Marineland Antibes, a French marine park ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like many people who visit San Juan Island, I came here for the orcas. This little patch of forest and farmland off the coast of ...

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fibre optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they ...

Humpback whales aren’t just recovering in numbers. Learning to hunt together may help them survive a warming, unpredictable ocean.

The first draft of recommendations to find long-term solutions to the declining Southern Resident killer whale population was published Monday. Governor Inslee's Southern Resident Killer Whale Task ...

You can call it spit, snot or respiratory drops, but a research team has found the moisture that emerges in the unique v-shaped "blow" of endangered North Atlantic right whales holds important clues ...

A right whale and its calf swim along the Atlantic coast. Right whales move south to the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida in winter to give birth to calves. The whales are among the rarest in the world ...