The seal had already lost its safest place. Moments earlier, it had been resting on a piece of Antarctic ice while killer whales moved beneath the surface nearby. The predators […]
At first, the fin moving toward Adam Walker looked like the last thing an exhausted swimmer wanted to see in open water. It was approaching quickly through the cold, rough […]
From the cliff above the bay, the problem looked painfully simple. The calf was inside. Its mother was outside. Only a narrow opening between two dark rocky points separated them. […]
The world had spent years trying to give Keiko one thing. Freedom. He had been lifted from a cramped amusement-park pool, rehabilitated in cold seawater, flown back to Iceland and […]
Why Did Tilikum’s Dorsal Fin Collapse? The Truth Behind His Most Recognizable Feature Tilikum was impossible to mistake for another orca. His enormous black body rose heavily through the water, […]
Each time her newborn slipped beneath the surface, the mother orca brought it back. What followed continued for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles.
It was never supposed to be made public. A highly classified piece of security footage, captured by underwater monitoring cameras in a remote Norwegian fjord, has recently leaked online, sending […]
Somewhere off the eastern coast of Australia, a male humpback whale hangs almost motionless in the deep blue. He is not swimming. He is not feeding. He is not going […]
The swimmer was close to the surface, moving slowly through clear blue water. Below him, something much larger appeared from the deep. A black-and-white shape rose through the ocean with […]
The seal had almost nowhere left to go. A small piece of ice held it above the cold water. Around it, the ocean was quiet, grey, and dangerous. One orca […]