Mother orca Tahlequah has been carrying her dead calf, a daughter, for at least 11 days, according to local news outlets.

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 ...

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some bowhead whales live for over 200 years. That's older than many countries' ...

This story appears in the July 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. There are no orcas to speak of in Western literature. Although they look like mythic creatures, with their sleek bodies ...

Orcinus is derived from the Latin word orcus, which means “of the netherworld.” Originally known as “whale killer,” the orca's common name stems from early whalers' records of the species' predatory ...

An orca famous for carrying a dead calf around ... but there's some good news for her endangered southern resident killer whale pod. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Last month, scientists and whale watchers spotted orcas (Orcinus orca ... "We've seen mammal-eating killer whales carry large chunks of food under their pectoral fin, kind of tucked in next ...

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

Credit: NOAA Fisheries An endangered orca is carrying a dead calf around ... part of a struggling group called the southern resident killer whale population, appears to be grieving another calf.