Chile's center-left president, Michelle Bachelet, journeyed to the Pacific Coast town of Quintay on Monday to sign two decrees designating whales as a national monument and extending indefinitely ...

Chile has not hunted whales since the 1970s. But Bachelet says the South American nation wants to send a clear sign of its will to protect whales in its waters. Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica ...

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. Last Saturday ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. Last Saturday, Adrián Simancas was ...

After 14-year search scientists think they have found a new type of killer whale off coast of Chile . Originally published March 7, 2019 at 10:11 am Updated March 7, 2019 at 5:41 pm ...

They likely mostly eat fish, not marine mammals like seals, as other killer whales do, Pitman said. Fishermen have complained about how good they are at poaching off fishing lines, snatching 200 ...

A new species of killer whale -- now known as Type D -- has been discovered and even sighted off the coast of Chile. Dr. Bob Pitman of NOAA joined Seattle's Morning News to discuss.

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. Last Saturday ...

In January of this year, a team of U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists sighted a pod of rare killer whales (also known as "orcas") off of Cape Horn, the southernmost ...

Several years ago, construction workers in Chile found whale fossils from 6 to 9 million years ago. NPR's Jacki Lyden speaks with Nick Pyenson, a paleontologist with the Smithsonian, who helped ...

A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off the coast of Chile before quickly releasing him unharmed. Adrian Simancas was kayaking with his father, Dell, in Bahia El Aguila in the Strait of ...

PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — A humpback whale briefly swallowed a kayaker off Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed. The incident, caught on camera, quickly went viral. Last Saturday ...