Tahlequah, an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles in 2018, lost another calf recently and ...

A new law went into effect Jan. 1 that extends the buffer zone around endangered Southern Resident killer whales, punishable ...

The orca who captured global attention in 2018 by carrying her deceased calf for 17 days has faced another heartbreaking loss.

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.

The orca, identified as J35 ... Pacific Ocean between Washington state and British Columbia, face numerous threats including vessel noise and disturbances that make it harder to hunt, pollution ...

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in another sign of ...

J61’s birth was of symbolic importance to the region. Her mother was Tahlequah, who 2018 carried her dead calf 1,000 miles ...

Two newborn calves joined the Northwest's endangered orcas in December. By New Year’s Eve, one of them was dead and being ...

The calf, designated J61, lived for only about a week before its death. The loss saddened scientists and marked a setback for the endangered Southern Resident orca population. Acc ...

An orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018 seems to be repeating the behavior with a newly deceased baby whale.

An orca that carried her dead calf with her for ... agencies have invested more than $1 billion in programs to reduce the threats to the whales. But the bottom line remains: The southern residents ...