Volunteer rescuers have freed a humpback whale entangled in ropes at a Skye salmon farm. The animal was spotted in difficulty at Organic Sea Harvest's Invertote site near Staffin in the north of the ...

Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images NOAA permit ... collision deaths of right whales in recent years. In one much-publicized case last year, a calf stranded off the state of Georgia ...

NOAA Fisheries West Coast An orca whale mother has kept her dead calf by her side for at least 11 days. Tahlequah (who is also known as her alpha-numeric designation, J35) previously made ...

has been seen carrying her deceased calf for at least 11 days, drawing attention to the critically endangered southern resident killer whales. Researchers say this behavior is a sign of grief.

Grief has long thought to be a human trait, but other animals – from killer whales to crows – also ... food and eventually starved to death. Getty Images The dog Greyfriars Bobby was ...

A humpback whale and her calf are performing acrobatics ... Dove Lake in Cradle Mountain National Park (Photo: Posnov/Getty Images) While south of Hobart, Bruny Island is home to a rare and ...

“As with last time, I think it’s enough to recognize how strong the mother-calf bond is in killer whales (among the strongest social relationships in any animal), and to see that she is clearl ...

The appearance of a new orca calf in Washington’s Puget Sound last month was cause for celebration. The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident ...

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shared images of this on social ... that Southern Resident killer whale J35 has lost another calf and is again keeping it with ...

Two rare female whales have been documented off the coast of Florida, each with a calf, marine surveyors said. The 20-year-old whale mothers, named Blackheart and Caterpillar, were seen Dec. 30 ...

The mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post.