The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just ...

Over time, that name morphed into "killer whales." Scientists don't know whether orcas kill for fun. The marine mammals do some things, like killing and tossing dead porpoises in the air ...

Blue whales can live up to 90 years, with some known to reach 110 years old, and their main predator is the orca (killer whale). Blue whales are the largest animals in the world. Despite their ...

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The pod of killer whales that showed up Thursday, Jan. 30, have only been documented less than 10 times since 1993.

when conditions and movements of the whales allow. “Obviously, it’s a heartbreaking, tragic situation for not just her, but also for the population,” NOAA orca researcher Brad Hanson told KUOW.

She previously worked at POPSUGAR, Bustle and Scarymommy. Tahlequah, the orca whale also known as J35, who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is grieving once again. On Jan. 1, the Center ...

The bittersweet New Year’s Day visit to central Puget Sound by J and K pods revealed both a new, apparently healthy calf had ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

Our current knowledge of orca – killer whales – has been greatly added to by common scientific methods such as photographic identification, studying their acoustics and tracking them using ...