An orca was stuck for six hours on rocks. — -- A killer whale was saved with what rescuers called a “[MacGyver-]type water pump” and plenty of manpower after it was left stranded on rocks along ...

A team of rescuers has suspended its efforts to save an orca calf that has been stranded for nearly two weeks in a remote lagoon on Vancouver Island off the west coast of Canada. Crews with the ...

Rescuers rush to save the orca calf beached on the sand in Northern California. Screengrab from Orca Rescues Foundation's Facebook post An orca calf found stranded on a shore in Northern California ...

ZEBALLOS, BC — ZEBALLOS, British Columbia (AP) — An orphaned killer whale stranded in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon is proving difficult for rescuers to catch, an official at the site said Friday.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Rescuers with multiple organizations, the Canadian government and tribal agencies have spent the past two weeks thinking of ways to free a killer whale calf from a lagoon near ...

A young orca calf has died after being stranded for over nine hours at Carmel River State Beach in California's Monterey Bay. The orca calf, measuring about 10 feet long and weighing close to 1,000 ...

An orphaned killer whale calf that had been trapped for weeks in a tidal lagoon on Vancouver island, dodging multiple rescue attempts, on Friday swam out on her own, a local Indigenous tribe said. The ...

Teams of whale experts raced out to sea Thursday to help an ailing young killer whale, but they don't plan to intervene to help a mother orca in the same critically endangered pod that has been ...