Tahlequah previously carried another dead newborn for 17 days in 2018. Here's what she's taught us about how orcas deal with death.

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and pointy-toothed grins, killer whales don’t figure as characters in our great novels. There’s no orca equivalent ...

Filmed across 24 locations over three years, this saga ventures into the world of whales to reveal life and love from their perspective and explores the cultures of orcas, belugas, narwhals ...

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Orcas may join parrots and the other animals who can imitate human speech. A study examined a captive orca who is able to ...

belugas trapped in icy Russian 'whale jail' to be released Orcas, belugas trapped in icy Russian 'whale jail' to be released ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... "It isn't every day that you see a whale's leg," he said, lifting the bone reverently in both hands.

Scientists in 2018 discovered that killer whales could mimic simple human speech patterns, and people were shocked to hear the eerie recording.

While fishing off the coast of Honduras in 2023, a group of anglers stumbled upon a rare sight: a pod of orcas hunting down a ...