Holidaymakers heading on winter holidays this year are being warned against buying tickets for attractions where captive ...

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 ...

IT hadn’t been more than ten minutes since we left the harbour, but already I was prepared to call it quits. The sea was swelling beneath our flimsy RIB dinghy, like giant rolling hills growing ...

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A team of scientists and filmmakers heads to Antarctica to study the most sophisticated hunts in the animal kingdom - killer whales making waves to wash seals off floating ice. Show more In ...

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 ...

Researchers say that the killer whale’s newborn calf in Puget Sound has also died and she’s unable to let go. By Adeel Hassan The mother orca nudges her dead calf with her snout, draping it ...

An orca who made headlines in 2018 after she carried her dead calf for more than two weeks was again spotted carrying the body of her newborn, just days after researchers confirmed she'd given birth.

The endangered population of orca whales in Washington State's Puget ... One mother whale became famous for carrying her dead calf on her nose in a "tour of grief." Now, her pod has had another ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over ...