While fishing off the coast of Honduras in 2023, a group of anglers stumbled upon a rare sight: a pod of orcas hunting down a ...
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 ...
A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Anglers off the coast of Honduras captured rare footage of a pod of orcas eating a sperm whale, according to a new study. Photo from Felix Rottmann, UnSplash While fishing off the coast of ...