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. […]
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.