A newborn killer whale calf spotted off the southern coast of WA could be one of the youngest ever seen in Australian waters.

The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just ...

The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths intermingle in a vast web of ecosystems and ...

Have you ever wondered whether your dog or cat experiences feelings of joy and sadness? How about whether or not wild animals love and grieve? Barbara J. King, an emerita professor of anthropology at ...

Public is encouraged to document orca sightings, which could help find the 2-year-old female calf last seen in fall, 2024 ...

Maybe the story of the orca mom and her dead calf spoke to me when it made headlines six years ago because I was swimming ...

A female killer whale gives birth to one calf at a time every three to 10 years. Orcas work together to take care of the young. Female killer whales live to be around 50 years old, but some orcas ...

The pod of killer whales that showed up Thursday, Jan. 30, have only been documented less than 10 times since 1993.

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

The federal measures put in place to protect the endangered orcas since the last ministerial assessment in 2018 have proven ...