The endangered population of orca whales in Washington State's Puget Sound has made global headlines in recent years. One mother whale became famous for carrying her dead calf on her nose in a ...

Autumn runs of chum and coho salmon in much of Puget Sound were abundant in the fall of 2024. Hanson said salmon runs that orcas depend on, including Chinook salmon in Canada’s Fraser River ...

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 ...

She carried that first dead calf for 17 days. A female killer whale was observed last week carrying her dead calf through Puget Sound in what experts say is further evidence that marine mammals ...

Whale researchers in the Pacific Northwest reported a day of extreme highs and lows on the last day of 2024. On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf ...

The Washington state-based Centre for Whale Research said the endangered orca named Tahlequah, also known as J35, was spotted carrying her deceased calf in Puget Sound off Seattle on New Year’s Day.

This makes Washington state the first place in the world to successfully implement a ban on all new commercial net pens, and ...

This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 ...

The bittersweet New Year’s Day visit to central Puget Sound by J and K pods revealed both a new, apparently healthy calf had ...

This year’s Treaty Day Film Festival offers the first local chance to see “Resident Orca,” the documentary that follows the ...