J50 was presumed dead Thursday after a search for the whale by boat, plane and from shore failed to spot her. About 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Ken Balcomb, founding director of the Center for Whale Research, ...

A massive search is underway for ailing orca J50, but the lead researcher who tracks the southern-resident population says she’s probably dead. “I think she is gone,” said Ken Balcomb, founding ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Efforts to find a sick young orca from a critically endangered population of killer whales in the Pacific Northwest came up empty Thursday, and a scientist who tracks the animals ...

SEATTLE -- The search continued Friday for resident killer whale J50. She’s been sick for weeks now, and on Thursday officials announced that they think she’s dead. “We’ve been looking to see if she’s ...

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Scientists are increasingly worried the antibiotic treatments for the sickly young orca dubbed Scarlet are not working. When response teams caught up to the J-Pod on Friday, they found Scarlet lagging ...

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. -- Scientists and veterinarians monitoring the health of the sickened Orca known as J50 said they spent three hours watching her and her J pod as they returned to the Salish Sea ...

The team of whale experts closely monitoring an ailing Southern Resident orca in northwest waters passed another hurdle in their efforts to save the sick whale. J50, the 3 ½-year-old whale, has lost ...

An international group of scientists are working to save ailing orca J50, a difficult process considering that she’s wild and can’t be examined. But scientists are feeling a bit hopeful after ...

SEATTLE (AP / NEWS 8) — Researchers carrying out unprecedented efforts to save an ailing young killer whale in the U.S. Northwest released live salmon into waters in front of the free-swimming orca ...