Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A new orca whale calf spotted in Puget Sound in Washington State is the latest addition to a well-known family of killer whales ...

They are genetically and culturally distinct from the region’s other orca population, known as the resident killer whales, which swim in tight-knit family pods and primarily feast on salmon.

SEATTLE — A new orca calf spotted in the Puget Sound last week is part of the family of the last killer whale captured in United States waters. The new Bigg's, or mammal-hunting, orca calf was ...

The baby killer whale is the fourth born into the Southern Resident killer whale population in the past 12 monthsThe sighting ...

The orca calf belongs to a family of transient killer whales, or “Bigg’s” killer whales, and was first spotted in the Salish Sea on Thursday, March 20, between Port Townsend and the San Juan ...

They were the killer whales known as Port and Starboard who ... trying to figure out how orcas - the largest of the dolphin family - are so easily dispatching some of the fiercest predators ...

A rare group of endangered southern resident killer whales was spotted off Oregon ... part of the L pod — one of three family groups in the critically endangered southern resident population.

The pod was also recognized by the Oregon Coast Killer Whale Monitoring Program, which said the group consisted of the L4 matrilineal group, a family within the L pod, according to a report by ...