BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada — The Center for Whale Research (CWR) confirmed this week that a newborn orca calf, J64, is believed to have died about a week after being first spotted with the endangered Southern Resident killer whales.

The J64 orca calf was born Sept. 18 and is now believed to be dead. This is the fourth southern resident killer whale born in the last year.

But, from the science, we know that two-thirds of pregnancies are lost. Half of all the calves don’t even make it through their first year. So no, this isn’t normal. We shouldn’t be seeing all these losses in the population,

The classic book Moby Dick features an enraged, giant white whale that rams and sinks a ship – and four terrified gals and their captain thought they were going to share the same fate when ferocious orcas attacked their sailing yacht,

A heartbreaking discovery off Lāna‘i this week. Researchers with Cascadia Research Collective found an endangered false killer whale severely entangled in marine debris.