A humpback whale and her calf are performing acrobatics ... calm waters and the notorious Hells Gates, where Macquarie Harbour meets the Southern Ocean. It’s a stirring end to a trip that ...

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 ...

Two rare female whales have been documented off the coast of Florida, each with a calf, marine surveyors said. The 20-year-old whale mothers, named Blackheart and Caterpillar, were seen Dec. 30 ...

Tahlequah’s pod, called J pod, hasn’t had a calf make it through its first year of life since 2022. These deaths are a sign of a population in deep distress, Wasser said. The whales ...

Scientists initially spotted the whale mom, known both as Tahlequah and J35, with a new female calf on Friday, Dec. 20 but were worried about the health of the baby when they got out on the water ...

State officials said the body of a whale calf was found on a Maui beach Friday. Courtesy photo State officials were notified Friday morning of a newborn humpback whale calf that was found dead on ...

Federal and state officials are recovering the carcass of a humpback whale calf from the shores of Kihei, Maui. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources says it is a deceased humpback ...

Federal and state officials are recovering the carcass of a humpback whale calf from the shores of Kihei, Maui. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources says it is a deceased humpback whale ...

KIHEI (HawaiiNewsNow) - A whale calf that beached itself on Maui did not survive the night. The baby humpback whale was found stranded inside the reef just off Halama Street in Kihei Thursday evening.

Researchers spotted Tahlequah the killer whale swimming with her new calf, J61, on Dec. 20. The baby whale died a little over a week later Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE ...

In 2018, she carried her calf’s body with her for 17 days. “It’s interesting that it’s the same whale doing this behavior again,” Dr. Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for ...

WASHINGTON – 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 ...