The Ehattesaht First Nation says a killer whale calf that had been trapped in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon for more than a month is now free after she swam out on her own early Friday morning.

A mother killer whale who famously pushed the body of her dead newborn for 17 days in 2018 has lost another calf, and researchers say she is again carrying the body in an apparent act of grief.

The mother first made headlines in 2018 when she swam about 1,000 miles of ocean with the body of her calf, which died a few hours after birth, preventing it from sinking for more than two weeks ...

T046B3A was spotted on March 20.Sedna is one of Wake’s grand-calf and the family’s lineage was almost cut short during that 1976 capture. The late Ralph Munro, a former Washington Secretary of ...

Researchers have confirmed the newest addition to a pod of endangered orcas off B.C.'s coast is a female. The calf, dubbed J-62, is a member of Southern Resident J-Pod – Feb 19, 2025 ...

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MEM confirmed the porpoise were “in fishing netting” set up on the beach, and showed injuries caused by the netting. A member of British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), which removed the ...

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 ...