A 14-year-old female orca named Wikie stunned scientists by accurately reproducing words such as “hello,” “one, two,” and “bye-bye.” The eerie recordings of her attempts to speak have ...

Another baby has been born to the Northwest’s endangered orca population. A Center for Whale Research crew spotted the baby, still ruddy from the womb, from a boat near Victoria, British ...

Later, she was introduced to five new orca sounds she had never heard before. In the final phase, Wikie was exposed to six ...

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 ...