For more than a thousand miles, a Southern Resident killer whale known as Tahlequah carried the body of her dead calf on a ...

Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale ...

Scientists have pieced together evidence that ancient marine reptiles once swam in what is now central Colombia, and these creatures appear to have been more formidable predators than today’s mighty ...

J35, also known as Tahlequah, is seen pushing her dead calf, J61, near Seattle, Wash., on Jan. 1. (NOAA Fisheries) The post detailing the sighting says observers "were not seeing much of the ...

Imagine hearing a killer whale say "hello" or "goodbye"; it might ... Initially, Wikie was taught to replicate three familiar sounds made by her calf. Later, she was introduced to five new orca ...

Proposed changes to the North Atlantic right whale vessel speed rule, which had been announced by NOAA Fisheries in July, 2022, have been withdrawn. NOAA Fisheries had previously accepted public ...

Reflecting on the phantasmagorical sardine run event, Caballero described how “A feeding frenzy is the biggest show on earth for me. The smallest animals on earth, plankton, attract bait balls of ...

Members of the marine mammal rescue group Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder walk with a Pygmy killer whale that was found stranded off the beach at Long Key State Park in the Florida Keys on ...

Orcas, also known as killer ... whale can be' when it comes to copying sounds they're not used to. The team carried out the research by first training a 14-year-old orca named Wikie to copy three ...

NOAA Fisheries West Coast An orca whale mother has kept her dead calf by her side for at least ... KOMO. The grieving killer whale mom and her family — Tahlequah has two living sons — were ...