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.

The historical whale hunt, he added, has compounded the North Atlantic right whale's troubles, leaving the population with almost no older whales — and little inherited wisdom for the younger ...

The end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 brought some bittersweet calf news as well as an exciting update for the community that follows Southern Resident killer whales, also known as orcas.

An orca that carried her dead baby across 1,000 miles of ocean for more than two weeks has tragically lost another calf. The killer whale, named J35 by researchers studying her, welcomed a daughter ...

Just before Christmas, the killer whale was spotted swimming with a new calf in the Puget Sound waterway in Washington, US. Advert This was the second calf J35 had given birth to since her 2018 ...

The public hunt, which kicked off in November, has swelled online discussion groups and sent aspiring millionaires searching from Vermont to California. It marks one of the most valuable ...

Police are hunting for two men who broke into a house in Stornoway and assaulted a man on New Year’s Day. Officers said the incident took place at 11.45pm on Wednesday within a property in the ...

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face numerous threats including vessel noise and disturbances that make it harder to hunt, pollution to food and a lack of food sources. As of December 2023, the J-pod of whales had 75 members ...

It may be a cruel irony that a dead whale washed ashore in Wine Harbour, N.S., in December about two kilometres from a proposed whale sanctuary that is once again readjusting its timeline.