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A Killer Whale Birth Has Been Captured On Camera In The Wild For The First Time

For the first time, the birth of an orca has been caught on camera. The first-of-its-kind event unfolded on November 2, 2025, in the waters off the coast of Skjervøy in Northern Norway. At least six ...
People

Rare Endangered Whale Species Has 'Relatively Productive' Birth Season — but Scientists Are Still Concerned

NOAA has recorded 15 North Atlantic right whale births so far over the 2025-2026 birthing season Getty The North Atlantic right whale population, which is just 384, saw a promising number of new ...
The Telegraph

A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct

FILE - A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the world’s ...
Wired

A North Atlantic Right Whale Baby Boom Is On—but the Species Remains at Risk

After nearly two decades, the baby whale came back—as a mother, with a baby of its own. Julie Albert, director of the Right Whale Sighting Network at Blue World Research Institute, a nonprofit, first ...
KGW8

Visitors vie for a glimpse of gray whales off the Oregon coast

DEPOE BAY, Ore. — Winter days with clear skies at the Oregon coast can be hard to find. At Rocky Creek State Park, the sweeping ocean views are already reason enough to pull over. But this time of ...
Mongabay

Climate change is slowing southern right whale birth rate, 33-year study finds

A new 33-year study finds that southern right whales off Australia are having calves less often, with the average time between births rising from 3.4 to 4.1 years since 2015, a trend researchers link ...