Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers say they can now spot those underwater baby bumps from the air and keep ...

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In 1969, a four-year-old baby orca was separated from her family off the coast of British Columbia and sold into captivity. For the past 50 years, she’s lived in an “oceanarium” and ...

The killer whale calf was spotted in the Puget Sound area off Washington state several days ago. On Tuesday, the center determined J35, also known as Tahlequah, was the baby's mother. The calf ...

Researchers will follow the growth of the new calf they've named Wren until the killer whale watching season ends in April. "We gave it the name Wren, which is the middle name of a new baby born ...

The same whale that made world headlines in 2018 for pushing her dead newborn calf around for 17 days, has now spent at least nine days doing the same with her calf that died around New Year's Eve.

The orca who swam with her dead calf for 17 days in an apparent act of grieving recently gave birth to a new baby, according to Michael Weiss, research director of the Center for Whale Research. The ...

Can we infer that her baby means more to her than her own life itself? It's a magnificent love that she carries." Julie Seitz of Federal Way followed Tahlequah's journey in 2018. Today, the orca ...

Tahlequah, a mother orca who gained fame in 2018 for carrying her deceased calf on her back, has lost another child — and heartbreaking photos and video show her again continuing to carry her ...

The baby Southern Resident killer whale was confirmed dead Dec. 31, the Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post. “The death of any calf in the SRKW population is a tremendous loss ...