In the vast Pacific Ocean, a dramatic and unexpected rescue unfolds as a pod of hungry killer whales attacks a defenseless baby blue whale. With no sign of its mother, the baby whale is helpless as ...

One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project ... was seeing an entirely different species: a baby pilot whale. She and her team observed the pod for ...

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The first baby humpback whale of the season has been spotted swimming in the Salish Sea off Washington, photos show. Big Mama ...

Scientists watched two encounters between killer whales and weeks-old baby pilot whales in 2022 and 2023 in a new paper published in Ecology and Evolution, and examined an earlier case in 2021 ...

As so-called "killer whales" have made news over the past few years for violent boat attacks in European waters, marine biologists have noticed a far sweeter behavior in Iceland's frigid waves: the ...

A pod of four transient killer whales — including a calf — was spotted Sunday, May 10, 2025, swimming out of the Yaquina River toward the ocean. It’s the latest in a steady stream of orca ...

The recovery of the humpback whale population suggests we may have been mistaken about their birthing grounds — tropical ...

"At first, we were like, 'Oh my god, this killer whale calf has a problem,'" the researcher said of the bulbous-headed baby she and her team first spotted back in 2022. It looked at first glance ...

Big Mama, a well-known humpback whale, was seen in the Haro Strait with her eighth calf. Getty Images/iStockphoto The first baby humpback ... and their predators, killer whales.