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

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

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some ...

A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf’s corpse along with her for more than two weeks in a ...

An orca who made headlines in 2018 after she ... J35, a southern resident killer whale also known as Tahlequah, carried her child's body on her head for 17 days across a distance of 1,000 miles ...

An orca that carried her dead calf with her for days in 2018 appears to be repeating the behavior with a newly deceased baby whale. Scientists think the killer whale is likely to be expressing ...

The mother orca ... killer whales because they eat salmon rather than marine mammals. Individual whales are identified by unique markings or variations in their fin shapes, and each whale is ...

The bereaved whale mother who made headlines when she heartbreakingly grieved her dead baby for more than two weeks has given ...

Orca researchers hope the Southern Resident population can grow to 80 to 90 whales in the next 50 years, which experts say will help them breathe a sigh of relief.