The colorful material weighed over 5 pounds and was likely made to decorate an emperor’s palace, Italian officials said.

The appearance of a new orca calf in Washington’s Puget Sound last month was cause for celebration. The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident ...

An orca who made headlines in 2018 after she carried her dead calf for more than two weeks was again spotted carrying the body of her newborn, just days after researchers confirmed she'd given birth.

Two rare female whales have been documented off the coast of Florida, each with a calf, marine surveyors said. The 20-year-old whale mothers, named Blackheart and Caterpillar, were seen Dec. 30 ...

Scientists initially spotted the whale mom, known both as Tahlequah and J35, with a new female calf on Friday, Dec. 20 but were worried about the health of the baby when they got out on the water ...

Federal and state officials are recovering the carcass of a humpback whale calf from the shores of Kihei, Maui. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources says it is a deceased humpback whale ...

Researchers spotted Tahlequah the killer whale swimming with her new calf, J61, on Dec. 20. The baby whale died a little over a week later Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE ...

J35, known by the nickname Talequah, is a member of the southern resident killer whale J pod and gave birth recently to a female calf. 0:35 New orca calf confirmed, another dead However ...

The mother whale, known as J35 aka Tahlequah, was seen with the new calf on December 20 but on Wednesday (Jan 1), it could be photographed, carrying the baby whale's carcass on her head.

The mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post.