According to KNKX, scientists are alarmed by the rising number of gray whale strandings along the Pacific West Coast.  So ...

Other animals including some early humans, non-human primates, sea otters, elephants, and bird species are known to use objects to make tools. While the bubble nets that humpback whales use to catch ...

Efforts to save the Northwest’s endangered orcas are not working on either side of the U.S.-Canada border, according to an ...

In a new sign of toolmaking in marine mammals, orcas in the Pacific Northwest were recorded rubbing stalks of kelp against ...

Dubbed "allokelping," it might be a unique cultural phenomenon that's as endangered as the orca population itself ...

To start a kelp-based grooming session, an orca places the bull kelp stipe on its face and nuzzles against another killer ...

An orca expert warns that federal budget cuts to science and research at NOAA could harm Southern Resident Killer Whale recovery.

An orca expert warns that federal budget cuts to science and research at NOAA could harm Southern Resident Killer Whale recovery.

And she listed the many private and public organizations and departments with which she and her team partnered along the way. That included West Seattle-based and -founded organizations like – in ...