||| FROM NEWSWEEK ||| Southern Resident orcas are facing an accelerating risk of extinction, a new study has found. The study, published in Nature, reports that the population, which lives in areas across Alaska, Washington state,

||| FROM THE WASHINGTON POST ||| VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Plans are underway to airlift a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote tidal lagoon off northern Vancouver Island in an effort to reunite

Because they totally could, and maybe even should. ||| FROM SYFY.COM ||| Director Steven Spielberg’s 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws cemented the great white shark as the most ferocious creature in the sea, in the minds of the movie-going public.

||| FROM PHYS.ORG ||| Scientists have resolved one of the outstanding questions about one of the world's most recognizable creatures, identifying two well-known killer whales in the North Pacific Ocean as separate species. The research

||| FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES ||| For many Indigenous groups across Polynesia, whales hold an ancient sacredness and spirit that connects all life. Whales — or tohorā, as Māori call them — guided their

||| FROM NORTHERN SENTINEL ||| A mother orca became beached and died on northern Vancouver Island on Saturday (March 23), despite the rescue efforts of local community members. The orca was found on Saturday morning