The French government has been urged to reconsider rehoming two stranded killer whales in Canada. Wikie, 23, and her ...

It also resulted in the release of a real-life whale named Keiko. Keiko was the 15-year-old orca that played Willy in the ...

For most of the 20th century, scientists on the Pacific Coast of North America held two basic assumptions about the killer whale (Orcinus orca): first ... Both turned out to be wrong, and it was ...

In the wild, orcas stay with their mothers their entire lives, but since she didn’t grow up with her family, she never learned how to be a mother herself. “She needed other whales with her ...

The black and slightly orange Bigg’s killer whale was spotted swimming with its mother, Sedna, in the Salish Sea ...

Morgan was born in the wild and was discovered ... idea that we can keep whales and dolphins captive without them suffering needs to end. The only way this new orca calf can be a celebration ...

Orcas are toothed whales and are closely related to narwhals ... Unlike orcas encountering people in the wild, in captivity, the story is different. There have been dozens of violent encounters ...

SeaWorld Orlando now faces a fine after a trainer was injured while interacting with an orca whale in September 2024 ... Just four human deaths caused by captive orcas have been recorded ...

These roundups have affected whale populations for decades. Tokitae, or Lolita, was an orca who was captured in a separate roundup in 1970. Tokitae remained in captivity at the Miami Seaquarium ...