November, scientists have harvested samples of everything from a fin whale, from the animal's heart, blubber, skin, baleen ...

The southern resident orca population marked the turn of the year with both heartbreak and hope: the death of a newborn calf ...

Tahlequah, the Southern Resident orca who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is mourning the loss of another newborn, ...

An endangered orca mother has been carrying her dead newborn calf on her snout for nearly a week around Washington’s Puget ...

Tahlequah first garnered worldwide recognition in 2018 when the killer whale carried her dead calf on the back for 17 days.

The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some ...

The mother orca nudges her dead calf with her snout, draping it over her head and gripping its tiny fin with her teeth, to stave off the inevitable.

The calf adds to the stressors facing the southern resident orcas, especially Tahlequah, a mother already caring for other ...

There appears to be new heartache for the orca nicknamed Tahlequah after researchers spotted her on Wednesday carrying her ...

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 ...