The calf was born into the L Pod — one of the family groups that make up the West Coast's endangered southern killer whale community. The sex of the new baby orca, L125, has not yet been confirmed.

With their iconic black and white markings, orcas (Orcinus orca), also known as killer whales, are an iconic sea mammal thanks to the 1993 film “Free Willy” and their controversial presence at ...

The young killer whale (Orcinus orca) was one of eight deceased orcas that researchers in Norway examined.Of these, seven (including the calf) had levels of the banned flame retardant ...

Killer whales are 7 to 8 feet in length at birth and weigh about 400 pounds, according to the Center for Whale Research. They are born after a 17-month gestation and nurse for at least a year ...

Like a proud cat leaving a bird on its owner's doorstep, orcas—also called killer whales—may sometimes offer to share their ...

A pod of orcas has been spotted accompanied by a baby pilot whale, with no other pilot whales nearby.. The pod of killer whales was spotted near Iceland this week by researchers with the Icelandic ...

Orcas Still frame from video footage recorded in the Kvænangen fjords, Norway, in 2024, showing the tongue-nibbling interaction between two free-ranging killer whales.

A baby pilot whale is lifted out of the water on the back of an unidentified killer whale (Photo by Heleen Middel for the paper Interactions Between Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) and Neonate Long ...

While well-documented in the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica, much less is known about killer whales (Orcinus orca) in ...

Killer whales kill. If you've ever seen orcas hunt their prey, this is an undeniable fact. They are the apex predators of the ocean. "Everything in the ocean is is either small enough to not be on ...

Female killer whales do have a chance to help later generations survive, because the species is among the few nonhuman mammals that experience menopause (SN: 3/5/15; SN: 8/19/13).

Killer whale pod via Shutterstock The prey of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Arctic is little studied, except of course by native Inuit peoples. New research has used a novel technique to ...