MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Russian rescuers returned a young female killer whale to the Sea of Okhotsk on Thursday after the orca beached in the far east, the emergency situations ministry said. Video ...

On Nov. 2, Orca Channel, a tour company that researches and captures media of Arctic wildlife, shared in a Facebook post that researchers on a recent whale-watching trip with Green Gold of Norway ...

An endangered southern resident orca calf, first discovered on New Year’s Eve, has been spotted again, and the Center for Whale Research is thrilled at the calf’s appearance. “She’s still there. She ...

SEATTLE — The newest member in the J Pod of the Southern Resident killer whales, calf J62, has been confirmed as a female by the Center for Whale Research. A team was sent to Snug Harbor on Feb. 8 ...

The whale exibited what researchers call mourning behavior after the loss of her second calf since 2018. She carried that first dead calf for 17 days. A female killer whale was observed last week ...

When researcher Jared Towers set up his cameras underwater to observe a pair of killer whales, he saw something strange.One of the orcas, a juvenile female, “approached a camera I had in the water to ...

Stop trying to make dead salmon hats happen. It’s probably not a thing. People have been buzzing for weeks because scientists and a whale watcher this fall on separate occasions spotted two killer ...

Orcas in the Gulf of California appear to have gained special skills to hunt and kill the world’s largest fish, according to a new study. Whale sharks, which grow up to 18m long, are known to feed in ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. The boat circled a pod of killer whales ...