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 ...

The month of December brought the endangered Southern Resident killer whales sadness and joy.

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

A January 2025 article from the BBC’s Jasmin Fox-Skelly details numerous examples, from an elderly elephant shedding tears and eventually succumbing to grief after an elephant she had befriended died ...

Computer models helped decode whale communication. But some scientists say there are barriers that cannot be overcome.

The pace of salmon recovery work — and difficulty in funding these complex projects — is hindering our ability to recover ...

The same whale that made world headlines in 2018 for pushing her dead newborn calf around for 17 days, has now spent at least ...

A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn's carcass ...

Only a handful of days old, the female calf was confirmed dead on New Year's Eve. The next day, the southern resident orca ...

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 ...

they spotted three orcas — an adult male and a mother-calf pair — circling a sperm whale, which measured under 20 feet.