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 ...

Orcas, known for their intelligence, can mimic human language, as demonstrated by a female orca named Wikie who replicated ...

Tahlequah, the Southern Resident orca who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is mourning the loss of another newborn, ...

Killer whales, or orcas, have long been recognized as some of the most intelligent creatures in the ocean. Known for their ...

Other Southern Resident orcas have been seen carrying dead calves but not for as long as Tahlequah did. In 2018, she carried ...

Tahlequah, an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles in 2018, lost another calf recently and ...

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that carried her dead calf for over two weeks in 2018 is doing so once again following ...

The calf was born in late December. Observing researchers noted unusual unspecified behaviors by mother and calf that led ...

"We have confirmation of another new calf in J pod, but sadly ... Southern resident killer whales are the only endangered population of killer whales in the U.S., according to the National ...

K and L pods, each of which has its own dialect and calls that differ from the others. There are also transient orcas in the ...

SEATTLE — The mother orca known as J35, or Tahlequah, has been seen carrying her deceased calf for at least 11 days, drawing attention to the critically endangered southern resident killer whales.

During a press briefing this week, scientists in the U.S. said they do not expect to be able to pinpoint the calf’s cause of ...