Scientists and First Nations are holding out hope that a young killer whale that escaped a North Island tidal lagoon after ...

The young Bigg's, or transient, orca was first spotted in the eastern Juan de Fuca Strait in Washington state on March 20.

That gave us a lot of hope moving forward.” The two-year-old female orca, nicknamed Kwiisahi?is, or Brave Little Hunter, by the Ehattesaht/Chinehkint First Nation, came to international ...

The confirmed sightings that did come in indicated the orca was finding food on her own, said Towers. “It’s a sign to us that she was fairly independent and somewhat innovative, which is not always ...

A new Bigg’s orca calf was spotted in the Salish Sea last week among a group of more than a dozen killer whales, according to ...

The orca has been the focus of intense rescue efforts since March 23, when her pregnant mother became stranded on a rocky beach and died near the bridge in the small inlet next to the community of ...

The rest of the group are her daughters and sons, and grand-children. Especially intriguing to Darren is that female orca go through something like the menopause - an extremely rare phenomenon in ...