Orca researchers hope the Southern Resident population can grow to 80 to 90 whales in the next 50 years, which experts say will help them breathe a sigh of relief.
In 2018, an orca in Washington dubbed J35 by scientists made global headlines when she carried her dead baby on her nose for 17 days. The same orca has just lost another calf.
Before Republican Mike Johnson won reelection to the House speakership on a first ballot Friday, Pacific Northwest lawmakers in D.C. shared their perspectives on the contentious process ahead of the ...
An orca famous for carrying a dead calf around has once again been spotted with a deceased newborn on her head in Puget Sound, but there's some good news for her endangered southern resident killer ...
In December, news broke that Tahlequah, the orca who famously carried her dead calf for 17 days, had given birth. Sadly, it ...
An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is ...
Other Southern Resident orcas have been seen carrying dead calves but not for as long as Tahlequah did. In 2018, she carried ...
Tahlequah, an orca whale who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is grieving another loss. On Jan. 3, researchers ...
A new law went into effect Jan. 1 that extends the buffer zone around endangered Southern Resident killer whales, punishable ...
Democratic Rep. Mark Takano of California, the first openly gay person of color elected to Congress, will be the chair of the ...
According to a news release from the Orca Network, the new law mandates recreational vessels must stay a minimum of 1,000 ...
The whale exibited what researchers call mourning behavior after the loss of her second calf since 2018. She carried that first dead calf for 17 days.