Old Tom also shared a common ancestor with killer whales from Australasia, the North Pacific, and North Atlantic Oceans, but is most similar to modern New Zealand killer whales. However, most of ...

Lots of whales are larger than life, but only a few achieve stardom. ... In the 1920s, off Australia's southeastern coast, there lived an orca known affectionately as "Old Tom." ...

George Davidson on Old Tom's body in Twofold Bay on September 17, 1930. His death led directly to the creation of the Eden Killer Whale Museum, says a local historian, Barry Smith, who guides ...

A killer whale swimming with whaling boats. (Image credit: Eden Killer Whale Museum) Old Tom washed up dead in 1930, and his skeleton is kept at the Eden Killer Whale Museum.

Before his death in 1930, "Old Tom" led a pod — "the Killers of Eden" — that helped humans hunt baleen whales. The orca patriarch and his family were rewarded with the lips and tongues of the ...

Old Tom became famous for working alongside whalers in Eden early last century. (Supplied: Eden Killer Whale Museum)The museum received grant funding from the Australia National Maritime Museum to ...

Old Tom, a particularly long-lived orca that participated in whale hunts in the early 1900s, may have sounded a call-to-arms early in the morning, or even in the middle of the night — a loud slapping ...

One killer whale, Old Tom, became legendary due to his active role in the hunts for at least three decades. He was seven metres long and weighed six tonnes. In 1930, he was found dead at a local ...

Eden's iconic killer whale known as Old Tom has travelled to Norway - or at least a small part of him has - where his DNA will play an important part in ground-breaking research. I've grown up in ...

Robert Whiter, a volunteer from the Eden Killer Whale Museum and lover of the town he's always called home, said he's only seen Old Tom move once before. I am a regional daily news journalist on ...

the only killer whale seen regularly in north atlantic waters is old tom, a large male orca who is known to swim alone, sometimes alongside dolphins in the gulf of may. AND THE BAY OF FUNDY.