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Jupiter resident Mike Lee was plying the azure waters off the coast of Palm Beach County looking for bait last month when he found something so much bigger. A humpback whale cruised incognito ...

A killer whale, which captured the world's attention in 2018 when it was spotted pushing the dead body of its newborn calf for 17 days, appears to be grieving again. The whale, known as Tahlequah ...

Whale J35 (known as Tahlequah) seen supporting the dead calf in 2018 A killer whale, which captured the world's attention in 2018 when it was spotted pushing the dead body of its newborn calf for ...

JUPITER, Fla. (WSVN) — It was a splashing sight off the coast of Florida as boaters shared a recent whale sighting. It happened Saturday outside the Jupiter Inlet when boaters Mike Lee and ...

A mother killer whale who famously pushed the body of her dead newborn for 17 days in 2018 has lost another calf, and researchers say she is again carrying the body in an apparent act of grief.

The death toll continues to rise amongst whales along Southern New England coastlines. On Wednesday, a juvenile humpback whale was stranded along Richmond Pond Beach in Westport. "This is the 13th ...

Whale researchers in the Pacific Northwest reported a day of extreme highs and lows on the last day of 2024. On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf, J61 died.

She was one of the Big Apple’s hottest young rising stars — and she was tragically lost too soon. The humpback that washed up dead in Long Beach this week has been identified as NYC0393, a ...

Jan. 2 (UPI) --Wildlife officials in Florida said a group of endangered right whales made a rare appearance off the coast of Ponte Bedra Beach, and they included two new calves. The Florida Fish ...

The end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 brought some bittersweet calf news as well as an exciting update for the community that follows Southern Resident killer whales, also known as orcas.