When you hear the word killer whale, you immediately imagine a vicious hunter in your head, fearsome and evil. But there was never a recorded attack on a human being in the wild. Below, you can find ...
While fishing off the coast of Honduras in 2023, a group of anglers stumbled upon a rare sight: a pod of orcas hunting down a sperm whale. The underwater attack—which was organized and bloody ...
Newborn southern resident killer whale, J62, swims alongside J41, believed to be its mother. Photo: NMFS 27038/DFO SARA 388 /Center for Whale Research ...
Amid the sorrowful news of J61’s loss, the Center for Whale Research noted, there was also cause for hope. On Monday researchers observed a new young orca swimming with the J pod, which they ...
The orca gave birth to another calf on Sept. 4, 2020, a male who was named J57. The Center for Whale Research described the newborn as "healthy and precocious, swimming vigorously alongside its ...
Researchers spotted Tahlequah the killer whale swimming with her new calf, J61, on Dec. 20. The baby whale died a little over a week later Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE ...
The orca was spotted carrying the body of another newborn calf ... While he shared that Tahlequah did appear to swim without the calf for stretches at a time, he said that he believes that she was ...
The study says the orcas could also affect humans, by “adding top-down pressure on Arctic food webs crucial to northern communities’ social and economic well-being.” It says killer whales in the ...
A bereaved female killer whale who carried her dead calf for more than two weeks in 2018 has again lost a newborn and is bearing its body, US marine researchers said.