The month of December brought the endangered Southern Resident killer whales sadness and joy. It was a history-making few weeks. Putting the sad plights of the iconic SWKW in an international news ...

In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...

Although we humans certainly do like to think of ourselves as smart, we only just discovered a new species of whale. The Rice's whale.

It would seem that the great white shark would be the undisputed top of the ocean’s food chain. Humans and sea creatures fear this monstrous apex predator with powerful jaws filled with razor-sharp ...

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

The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident population, a federally protected endangered group of fish-eating killer whales stretching from British ...

The mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, was seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post.

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“The death of any calf in the Southern Resident killer whale population is a tremendous loss, but the death of J61 is particularly devastating, not just because she was a female, who could have ...

Tahlequah is one of 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas, a killer whale population that lives in three pods − J, K an L − along the Salish Sea near British Columbia and Washington State.

A bereaved female killer whale who carried her dead calf for more than two weeks in 2018 has again lost a newborn and is bearing its body, US marine researchers said. Scientists say whales are ...

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