A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving uncertain futures for the two last orcas in captivity in the country, hundreds ...
The calf was born Dec. 24. Observing researchers noted unusual unspecified behaviors by mother and calf that led them to ...
An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in another sign of ...
The Southern Resident orca's J pod brought us grief and joy on the first day of 2025. SEATTLE — On this first day of the year, dozens of people chose to start 2025 at Constellation Park in West ...
The fate of two killer whales is uncertain following the closure of a marine zoo on Sunday. Campaigners and the zoo's managers have been locked in disagreement about what should happen to the orca ...
The calf, designated J61, lived for only about a week before its death. The loss saddened scientists and marked a setback for the endangered Southern Resident orca population. Acc ...
Grieving mother orca whale carries dead baby — again - Tahlequah had carried her other dead female calf for more than two ...
On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf, J61 died. Just a week earlier, researchers had proudly announced this new member of J pod, delivered by J35, Tahlequah.
In 2018, an orca in Washington dubbed J35 by scientists made global headlines when she carried her dead baby on her nose for 17 days. The same orca has just lost another calf.