Killer whales are expanding their territory and have moved into Arctic waters as climate change melts sea ice, with two genetically distinct populations being identified by Canadian scientists. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

"According to the anglers, the attack was already underway when they arrived as the killer whales were observed coordinating their attack on the sperm whale in waves," the study said. For the next ...

In December 2014, we wrote in a commentary in the Times Colonist that said “southern resident killer whales are no better off now than when they were listed as endangered 15 years ago.” ...

This is the breathtaking moment a pod of killer whales was spotted in Newport Beach, California. Staff on a boat operated by Davey's Locker Whale Watching first sighted the orcas around 9 am on ...

The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident population, a federally protected endangered group of fish-eating killer whales stretching from British ...

the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him for 17 days in 2018, has likely suffered another loss. Per The Seattle Times, researchers believe the mother orca's newborn calf ...

This loss, researchers describe as ‘devastating’ for the already struggling population, which has dropped to an alarming number of 73 A recent federal assessment confirmed by the Centre for Whale ...

Hanson added, "To be back in that same position again, it's just truly traumatic for all of us, including the whale." While other killer whales have been observed exhibiting similar grieving ...