He saw orcas swimming around a kelp bed near his home and rowed out to them. The huge dorsal fin of a big male towered over him. The whale seemed to him ‘like an executioner’. But the orca dived ...

Individual whales are identified by unique markings or variations in their fin shapes, and each whale is given a number and name.Traveling together in matrilineal groups, the orcas at times can be ...

A mother killer whale who famously pushed the body of her dead newborn for 17 days in 2018 has lost another calf, and researchers say she is again carrying the body in an apparent act of grief.

Resident orcas can usually be identified by their rounded dorsal fins, as opposed to the straighter dorsal fins on transient orcas, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

An orca who made headlines for mourning her dead calf in a unique two-week “tour of grief” is responding to her latest deceased newborn in the same way, a heart-wrenching photo shows.

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 ...

While other orcas have been observed carrying their dead ... Tahlequah last gave birth to a male calf in 2020. "New Year’s Eve 2024 was a day of extreme highs and lows. We have confirmation ...