Tahlequah first garnered worldwide recognition in 2018 when the killer whale carried her dead calf on the back for 17 days.

Dave Phillips, a scientist that helped to rewild Keiko, the orca who starred in "Free Willy," is working to help two other ...

Tahlequah, an orca mother known as J35, was observed carrying her dead calf across the waters near Washington State. The U.S.

Researchers spotted Tahlequah the killer whale swimming with her new calf, J61, on Dec. 20. The baby whale died a little over a week later Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE ...

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.

The two orcas -- also known as killer whales -- themselves face an uncertain future. Animal activists had been angered by Marineland's plans to transfer its two killer whales to Japan, a move ...

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some bowhead whales live for over 200 years. That's older than many countries' ...

The southern resident orca population marked the turn of the year with both heartbreak and hope: the death of a newborn calf ...

Alarmingly, only 23 of these are believed to be breeding females. Image for Representation. Reuters A killer whale that captured global attention in 2018 by carrying the body of her deceased newborn ...