According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a necropsy revealed the whale may have suffered a ship ...

The recent news that Tahlequah, a matriarch of the Southern Resident killer whales, has lost a second calf and is again, as she did in 2018, carrying her dead calf around Puget Sound, demonstrates ...

The appearance of a new orca calf in Washington’s Puget Sound last month was cause for celebration. The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident ...

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“The death of any calf in the Southern Resident killer whale population is a tremendous loss, but the death of J61 is particularly devastating, not just because she was a female, who could have ...

A reader sent fascinating video footage to this newspaper of what looked like a whale in the sea at Hastings. The video, taken by Ricky Martin, showed what appeared to be a large animal breaking the ...

According to the center, the death of any Southern Resident killer whale calf is a "tremendous loss," but the death of Tahlequah's calf is "particularly devastating, not just because she was a ...

A bereaved female killer whale who carried her dead calf for more than two weeks in 2018 has again lost a newborn and is bearing its body, US marine researchers said. Scientists say whales are ...

A killer whale that is part of a population struggling to survive appears to be grieving, carrying the carcass of her dead calf on her head, echoing the mourning behaviour she exhibited for 17 ...

Scientists are unsure what caused the female calf’s death but believe it was born prematurely. About 50% of orca babies die within a year. The population of southern resident killer whales has ...