In 1995, Robert Small and Douglas DeMaster calculated annual survivorship rates (ASRs) in captive orcas and compared these results to the ASRs of wild orcas living in the Pacific Northwest of North ...

The phenomenon is more common in captivity, but people have also seen wild orcas with curved fins. So, the cause cannot be captivity alone. Ultimately, what's going on is the collagen in the ...

There is no record of an orca ever killing a human in the wild. One of the few documented near-attacks — an orca charging at a surfer in Norway before pulling away — most likely happened ...

Giles was unable to tell if the orca was J27; identifying features such as the dorsal fin and saddle patch on its back were underwater. “But the fish was definitely up there,” she said.

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

Orcas, like humans, get baby bumps in the early months of pregnancy and grow larger as the pregnancy advances. Researchers ...

"And again, because him being a social animal in the wild, a male Orca will live their entire lifetime little more than another whale's length from their mother. "You know that's how tight these ...

And of course, there are the tourists. It’s impossible not to think about how we are impacting these orcas. The underwater noise we are all creating with our vessels must be a problem for these ...

She couldn’t nurse her young because “she just didn’t know how,” says Morton in The Nature of Things documentary Listening to Orcas. In the wild, orcas stay with their mothers their entire ...

UW students and community members gathered in Kane Hall for a screening of the 2021 documentary Coextinction. WashPIRG hosted ...