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.

A new orca calf spotted in the Puget Sound last week is part of the family of the last killer whale captured in United States waters. The new Bigg's, or mammal-hunting, orca calf was spotted ...

Experts have been studying whales in the Pacific Ocean since the 1970s This particular pod is called the Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW ... average lifespan of a wild orca is between ...

Alexandra Morton remembers studying Corky at Marineland in the late 1970s, watching as Corky’s newborn — the first to be born in captivity ... Listening to Orcas. In the wild, orcas ...

The sighting of a baby killer whale in British Columbia has given researchers a sign of hope for the endangered species, according to the Center for Whale Research.

The French government has been urged to reconsider rehoming two stranded killer whales in Canada. Wikie, 23, and her ...

Small and DeMaster hypothesized that, as time passed and husbandry improved, and as more orcas were born in captivity (rather than caught in the wild), survivorship in captivity would one day equal or ...

VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C. — There’s new hope in the J Pod of endangered Southern Resident orca whales ... J40’s first known baby and the fourth born into the Southern Resident population ...