The San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau says the best time to see the an assortment of whales is between April and October. Many ...

Scientists have documented what might be the first case of friendly interactions between killer whales and smaller cetaceans. Here's what they think is going on.

(Learn how orcas can ... to swim right into the orca pod, Gregory believes the pair were trying to mess up the orca’s hunt and even protect the seal. Leigh Hickmott, a whale biologist at the ...

People were awestruck after witnessing a killer whale swim backwards off West Vancouver ... They ventured out and found a small area beside the park. Right as they arrived, an orca breached. "My mom's ...

Experts with the federal Fisheries Department and Parks Canada are searching the St. Lawrence River estuary for a North Atlantic right whale tangled in fishing gear. The Fisheries and Oceans ...

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says it's aware of an entangled North Atlantic right whale on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River estuary. It says the whale was spotted in the ...

and there has never been a North Atlantic right whale sighting in Bahamian seas, where the pair are currently located. Typically this time of year sees these giant baleens going in the exact ...

There was a boom in whale bones between 17,500 and 16,000 BC, when tools have been found as far away as Germany. "Then it stopped quite abruptly" for reasons that are not clear, Petillon said.

The Pacific Offshore killer whale population is currently listed as data deficient on the IUCN Red List and Threatened in Canada. The population is estimated at 300 individuals with a range extending ...