“It was a huge male orca with an absolutely humongous dorsal fin,” said Cowan. “My neighbour texted me ‘orca’,” said Cowan, who ran to watch the display. Jackie Cowan was on her ...

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 ...

A mother killer whale who famously pushed the body of her dead newborn for 17 days in 2018 has lost another calf, and ...

In a rare return to the Southern California coast, a beloved family of orcas made a few star appearances for whale watchers on Friday. Lucky viewers got to witness a visit from a mother killer ...

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 ...

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.

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.