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 26-foot humpback whale that was found deceased and entangled in commercial mussel-farming gear this week off Huntington ...

“He released a shimmering trail of tiny microbubbles from his plumage, coating himself with a lubricating layer of air to cut ...

The loss of Tahlequah’s new calf (“ Orca Tahlequah’s new baby dies ,” Dec. 31, Climate Lab) and her all-too-familiar grief are heart-wrenching. It would be easy to despair and feel powerless. But ...

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

Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor at William & Mary College, has spent her career exploring the depth of animals' emotional lives.

Two more North Atlantic right whale calves have been sighted off the coast of the southeastern U.S., bringing the total number of calves so far this calving sea ...

This is not mom and dad tootling around in a little boat on the weekend ... Davenport said. In 2021, a notice that a whale ...

A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago was spotted recently in waters off Victoria, B.C., still ...

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

For at least 11 days, a mother killer whale has been carrying the body of her dead newborn calf. Only a handful of days old, ...

NOAA has withdrawn a proposal to expand protection of endangered right whales that give birth off the Georgia coast.