In the final event of the three-day First City Invitational age group meet Sunday afternoon, Ketchikan Killer Whales swimmer Hunter Eckert was competing in the 50-yard backstroke in lane 8 when he ...

Orcas, or killer whales, also adopted a bizarre behavior during this time that could only be described as a fad—balancing dead salmon on their heads like aquatic hats. Just as quickly as this ...

The Center for Whale Research has named the newborn killer whale female J61 Dave Ellifrit/Center for Whale Research Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him for 17 ...

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A killer whale mother who carried her dead calf for 17 days in an apparent show of grief has given birth to a new calf, scientists have said. The orca, named Tahlequah and known to researchers as ...

The scientists plan to conduct a follow-up once the whales’ movements allow it to take place. At the start of the new year, the tragedy bore an even heavier weight on orca fans and scientists as ...

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The killer whale, named Tahlequah or J35 to researchers, was spotted swimming with a new calf in the Puget Sound waterway off Washington State on Friday, scientists have said. In a Facebook post ...

“The death of any calf in the Southern Resident killer whale population is a tremendous loss, but the death of J61 is particularly devastating, not just because she was a female, who could have ...

“Our hearts are in pieces,” said Salome Mathis, a young keeper who came to say goodbye to her former colleagues at the water park. The two orcas – also known as killer whales – themselves face an ...