Researchers have spotting a grieving orca whale still holding on to her dead calf at British Columbia's Southern Gulf Islands, July 31, 2018, eight days after the death of her calf.

A 21-foot, 6,000-pound adult female orca died after becoming stranded on a beach in Palm Coast, Florida, marking the first known killer whale stranding in the Southeast US.

Lolita's not doing shows right now. Miami Seaquarium says its whale stadium is temporarily closed for repairs. At 56 years old, Lolita is considered elderly for an orca.

Keiko became the first killer whale returned to the wild in 2002, more than 20 years after he was captured in waters off Iceland. He went on to survive for five years before dying of pneumonia at ...

Killer whale punts a sea lion 20 feet in the air to show calf how it’s done A killer whale calf that is several months old swims with an adult in its pod during a hunting session.

A young female orca calf recently spotted by the CWR has now been confirmed to be the offspring of a whale who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018.

With a calf following close by, orcas swim near the various whale watching boats following the orcas as they swim off the coast of Huntington Beach at sunset on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. For ...

Boaters in Alaska came upon a peculiar sight on Thursday: A 20-foot-long killer whale was on the shore, stuck in a crevice of rocks. Someone on a boat had spotted the orca on Prince of Wales ...

The Center for Whale Research, which was involved in the study, has been monitoring the group since 1976. The species is unusual in that males and females stay with their mothers for life.

Swimming deep in the Pacific Ocean, a group of little-known killer whales that eat large sea mammals including grey whale calves has been found, researchers say. In a recently-published catalog ...

Her head above water, Wikie the killer whale looks at the human trainer next to her pool, listens, then loudly vocalizes: "Hello." It is not a perfect imitation, but, astonishingly, recognizable.

A killer whale beached on an Alaskan shore has finally returned to the sea, after bystanders captured its sorrowful calls as it lay helpless during a six-hour ordeal. The orca, r eported to be 20 ...