The 39-foot gray whale carcass was discovered floating off Marina del Rey on Saturday with most of its head missing.

According to their results recently published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the culprit is clear: a killer whale ...

The grieving whale was most recently spotted carrying her daughter, who died on New Year's Eve ... The grieving killer whale mom and her family — Tahlequah has two living sons — were spotted ...

Recent findings used wildlife forensics and citizen science data to provide the first confirmed evidence of killer whale ...

Marine mammal responders mobilized for the report of a stranded dolphin off Long Key State Park on Jan. 12. What they found upon arrival was a little more rare. Art Cooper, director of stranding ...

A mother orca is continuing to carry the dead body of her calf that died about two weeks ago ... the US-based research center said that the mother killer whale, also known as J35 or Tahlequah ...

A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago was spotted recently in waters off Victoria, B.C., still carrying the carcass of her newborn. The Center for Whale Research spotted the ...

A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn’s carcass in waters off Victoria. The Center for Whale Research says in a ...

Grief has long thought to be a human trait, but other animals – from killer whales to crows – also appear to suffer loss when a companion dies. Last week, a female killer whale was spotted off ...

The pair hit it off until Belen died in 2000 after issues while giving birth, leaving the killer whale mostly alone for the past 25 years. He has spent his time with only two dolphins near him as ...

Members of the marine mammal rescue group Dolphins Plus Marine Mammal Responder walk with a Pygmy killer whale that was found stranded off the beach at Long Key State Park in the Florida Keys on ...

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