Fans of the Northwest’s endangered orcas have been on an emotional rollercoaster. Two newborn calves were seen swimming with the region’s southern resident orcas in late December, a welcome boost to ...

A new documentary film tells the story of a captured orca named Tokitae that died in 2023 amid efforts to free her from more than 50 years of captivity, and it was shown last week at the Whistler Film ...

An orca who made headlines in 2018 for carrying around the body of her dead offspring has lost another calf, and seems to be repeating her prior show of grief. The killer whale mother is widely known ...

Since Tuesday, an endangered orca in Washington state has been carrying her dead newborn calf around Puget Sound. Biologists say it's the same mother whale that made international headlines in 2018 ...

A whale known to many in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest will get the star treatment in a new podcast this month. Serial Productions and the New York Times will release “The Good Whale,” a six-part ...

In 2018, scientists documented the same orca mother carrying her dead calf for 17 days across more than 1,000 miles of water. Reading time 2 minutes Humans aren’t the only ones who experience grief ...

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