A team of scientists and filmmakers heads to Antarctica to study the most sophisticated hunts in the animal kingdom - killer whales making waves to wash seals off floating ice. Show more In ...
"Every single birth counts and these whales need enough fish to be able to support themselves and their calves. We continue to advocate for salmon recovery through habitat restoration, removal of ...
"The callosities appear white due to the presence of cyamids, or whale lice, that often congregate on the callosities," officials said. They can get up to 55 feet long, and an adult can weigh up ...
North Atlantic right whales were subject to "Yankee whaling," which ended around 1910, he said. Given the animals' slow rate of reproduction, the small number of whales that weren't hunted were ...
The end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 brought some bittersweet calf news as well as an exciting update for the community that follows Southern Resident killer whales, also known as orcas.
An orca that carried her dead baby across 1,000 miles of ocean for more than two weeks has tragically lost another calf. The killer whale, named J35 by researchers studying her, welcomed a daughter ...
Just before Christmas, the killer whale was spotted swimming with a new calf in the Puget Sound waterway in Washington, US. Advert This was the second calf J35 had given birth to since her 2018 ...