The pace of salmon recovery work — and difficulty in funding these complex projects — is hindering our ability to recover salmon populations.” | Opinion ...

This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 ...

Mother orca Tahlequah is continuing to carry her burden of grief: a dead calf that she now has been refusing to let go of for ...

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Though the new rule applies to southern resident whales and not transient killer whales, it is difficult for the untrained ...

In 2018, researchers observed J35 pushing her dead calf along for 17 days, propping it up for more than 1,000 miles (1,600 ...

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some ...

The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident population, a federally protected endangered group of fish-eating killer whales stretching from British ...

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“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 ...

I wouldn’t have believed it myself if I hadn’t seen the photograph. It is a picture of an adult from Puget Sound’s southern resident Orca pod swimming peacefully and proudly wearing a dead salmon ...