The Center for Whale Research has named the newborn killer whale female J61 Dave Ellifrit/Center for Whale Research Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him for 17 ...

Orcas, or killer whales, also adopted a bizarre behavior during this time that could only be described as a fad—balancing dead salmon on their heads like aquatic hats. Just as quickly as this ...

Subhonkul Rakhimov, one of the 29 survivors from the Azerbaijan Airlines flight JR-8243 crash, filmed what he thought were ...

Imagine a kayaker paddling with a friend off Haida Gwaii. Without warning, a killer whale surges out of the water about 12 metres away. After exhaling through its blow hole, the bold blackfish swims ...

Dec. 23—It's now been more than a month since a 47-foot fin whale washed up on the Anchorage coastal flats, near the mouth of Fish Creek. In those first days after the whale's Nov. 16 appearance ...

The bereaved whale mother who made headlines when she heartbreakingly grieved her dead baby for more than two weeks has given birth to a new calf, scientists said. The mama orca, named J35 by ...

Her apparent 1,000-mile tour of grief threw a spotlight on the plight of the southern resident killer whales, endangered by pollution, ship noise, and a lack of salmon to eat. RELATED: Mama orca ...

The killer whale, known as Tahlequah, has been spotted carrying the body of her dead calf, echoing her display of grief from 2018.

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Dec. 26 (UPI) --The killer whale that carried her dead calf on her head for more than two weeks for 1,000 miles in 2018 has a new baby, according to the Center for Whale Research. The ...

Species & Habitats At-risk species Species recovery and protection Killer whale (orca) conservation and management Killer whale biology and conservation ...