Whale Expert Who Helped Real-Life Free Willy Is Fighting to Save 2 Orcas at Shutdown Marine Park (Exclusive)
Dave Phillips, a scientist that helped to rewild Keiko, the orca who starred in "Free Willy," is working to help two other ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN1d
Killer whale mom who carried dead calf’s body for weeks seen grieving again
The Center of Whale Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) witnessed the mother carrying her ...
The Bowhead Whale Survives Icy Waters and Killer Whale Attacks
The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some ...
Killer whale who carried her dead calf for 17 days across 1,000 miles of ocean loses another baby
A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf’s corpse along with her for more than two weeks in a ...
Axios on MSN14h
Seattle's southern resident killer whales in peril
The southern resident orca population marked the turn of the year with both heartbreak and hope: the death of a newborn calf ...
Why Tahlequah, the killer orca that carried its dead calf for weeks, is mourning again
An orca has been spotted carrying the body of its deceased calf. The orca named Tahlequah, first gained global attention in ...
French Marine Park Closes Over Law Banning Killer Whale Shows
A French marine park on Sunday closed down definitively over a 2021 law banning shows featuring marine mammals, leaving ...
CBS News5d
A grieving orca carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018. Now she's again carrying the body of her latest child.
J35, a southern resident killer whale also known as Tahlequah, carried her child's body on her head for 17 days across a distance of 1,000 miles in 2018, according to the Center for Whale Research.
Why Killer Whales—Famous For Sporting Salmon ‘Hats’ In The 1980s—Might Be Doing It Again
Did you know orcas once turned salmon into quirky headwear in the 1980s? This "fad" disappeared by the turn of the decade, ...
Southern Resident orca whale again carries her dead calf through Puget Sound-area waters
On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf, J61 died. Just a week earlier, researchers had proudly announced this new member of J pod, delivered by J35, Tahlequah.
Famous southern resident killer whale spotted carrying dead calf near BC
Animal lovers around the world have joined a southern resident killer whale in mourning after the news broke that she had ...
Killer whale mom who carried her dead baby for 17 days across 1,000 miles of ocean gives birth to new calf
The bereaved whale mother who made headlines when she heartbreakingly grieved her dead baby for more than two weeks has given ...