A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and ...

Boaters in the region are far more likely to encounter "transient" orcas, which prey on other marine mammals, including gray whales. Offshore killer whales, as their ecotype association implies, ...

In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...

The loss of Tahlequah’s new calf (“ Orca Tahlequah’s new baby dies ,” Dec. 31, Climate Lab) and her all-too-familiar grief ...

The law aims to protect southern resident orcas from noise caused by boat traffic, which could affect their likelihood of ...

She nudged her nose under her lifeless newborn, laboring to keep it above the gray water of Puget Sound ... By analyzing hormones in southern resident killer whales’ feces, Wasser has helped ...

While fishing off the coast of Honduras in 2023, a group of anglers stumbled upon a rare sight: a pod of orcas hunting down a ...

The law does not change the regulations around approaching healthier populations such as Bigg’s killer whales, humpback whales, gray whales or any other whale species in the area. Seattle Times ...

The mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post.

While found in tropical and subtropical waters, the small gray and black whales typically ... they found it was a 5 and a half-foot long Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata), per a Dolphins ...