Researcher Jeremy Kiszka teamed up with a company that makes an app to follow the movements of species at risk. Proceeds from its sale fund the university's marine conservation efforts.

Experts speculate that orcas may be playing when they ram boats so hard they sink—a phenomenon that’s mostly been documented in this region.

Facebook was flooded with videos of orcas splashing and jumping as they made their way under the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to Fox Island.

While orcas, also known as "killer whales," are a common sight in the northeast Pacific Ocean, they’re rarely detected in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, where little is understood about pods that swim ...

A new J-Pod orca calf was spotted last week in the Puget Sound, less than two weeks after a mother carried her dead baby near the San Juan Islands.

Killer whales, or orcas, are apex predators known for their intelligence and complex social structures. While wild orcas are not considered a threat to humans and have no recorded fatal attacks, it's ...

A group of killer whales were spotted off the coast of California, boaters said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A group of orcas was spotted off the coast of California, leaving boaters “thrilled,” ...

No, the TikTok video showing a trainer named Jessica Radcliffe dying in the mouth of an orca killer whale is not real. It appears to be AI. However, there was a real marine trainer who died after an ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...