Imagine a kayaker paddling with a friend off Haida Gwaii. Without warning, a killer whale surges out of the water about 12 ...

At the Family Activity Center, guests of all ages can participate in hands-on activities to learn about the Pacific Northwest ...

Dave Phillips, a scientist that helped to rewild Keiko, the orca who starred in "Free Willy," is working to help two other ...

Researchers do not yet know J62's gender or who J62's mother is. Southern resident killer whales are the only endangered population of killer whales in the U.S., according to the National Oceanic ...

Tahlequah, a mother orca who gained fame in 2018 for carrying ... “The death of any calf in the Southern Resident killer whale population is a tremendous loss, but the death of J61 is ...

About 50% of orca babies die within a year. The population of southern resident killer whales has struggled for decades, with only 73 remaining, according to experts. NOAA/NMFS NOAA News / USA ...

Hanson added, "To be back in that same position again, it's just truly traumatic for all of us, including the whale." While other killer whales have been observed exhibiting similar grieving ...

Tahlequah is one of 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas, a killer whale population that lives in three pods − J, K an L − along the Salish Sea near British Columbia and Washington State.

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 ...

In 2018, researchers observed J35 pushing her dead calf along for 17 days, propping it up for more than 1,000 miles.

The southern resident orca population marked the turn of the year with both heartbreak and hope: the death of a newborn calf ...