Witness in the ocean, 12 killer whales surrounded a baby whale, and what happened next left scientists and marine biologists speechless. This dramatic event, observed in the wild, was unlike anything ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd ...

Scientists watched two encounters between killer whales and weeks-old baby pilot whales in 2022 and 2023 in a new paper published in Ecology and Evolution, and examined an earlier case in 2021, to ...

Two orca pods, including one with a baby killer whale, humpback whales and dolphins were spotted off Monterey, California. Christoffer Engstrom Unsplash Whale watchers in Monterey Bay got a ...

J62 is the latest calf born to the endangered southern resident killer whales. This healthy baby girl is sticking close to J pod, which needs more females to help boost its population.

Spotting a new orca calf in the Salish Sea is always exciting to whale watchers and researchers, but the most recent baby whale bouncing in the waters is particularly notable. The female orca ...

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.

When Towers asked his colleagues, he discovered that they, too, had been gifted food by killer whales. All in all, just from ...

(CNN) - An orca that made headlines when she swam about 1,000 miles with the body of her dead calf has given birth again. Researchers from the Center for Whale Research say Tahlequah, known as J35 ...