“Simply put, she’s the whale who started it all,” Gless said. More humpback whales are expected to return to the Salish Sea ...

The first baby humpback whale of the season has been spotted in the Salish Sea off Washington, photos show. A whale watching ...

RELATED: Why are these killer whales increasingly showing up in the Salish Sea? This is the conclusion of a paper published in the journal Royal Society of Open Science, which states the orca ...

Sperm Whales Seen Using Poop to Defend Against Orcas In the study, researchers played underwater recordings of humpback whales to other whales off the coast of Alaska. They found that while most ...

A new method of whale detection will help protect cetaceans from ship disturbances and collisions in B.C.’s Salish Sea, an ocean conservation group announced Thursday. Vancouver-based Ocean Wise ...

He was piloting a small skiff and trailing a squad of six killer whales. Ford ... dolphins, even humpback calves—but not fish. “These prey specializations aren’t just choices that orcas ...

He was piloting a small skiff and trailing a squad of six killer whales. Ford ... dolphins, even humpback calves—but not fish. “These prey specializations aren’t just choices that orcas ...

Blue whales are baleen whales. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they almost exclusively eat krill, which they strain out of huge water gulps through baleen plates.

On April 24, the Pacific Whale Watch Association (PWAA) announced the arrival of Black Pearl, a humpback whale, and her three ...

Baleen whales eat between 10 and 20 tons a day, a 2021 Nature report found. That’s the caloric equivalent of eating 70-80 thousand Big Macs per day, the researchers told NPR. Humpback whales ...

Humpback whales are filter feeders and eat ... keeping their mouths open to gulp up the fish. Killer whales, also called orcas, are social predators who hunt as a team in “pods.” ...