Maybe the story of the orca mom and her dead calf spoke to me when it made headlines six years ago because I was swimming ...

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

The documentary tells the story of the last southern resident killer whale held in captivity, and the efforts of two Lummi women to bring the orca home to a net pen sanctuary.

Orca advocates are begging federal leaders to help keep the Puget Sound’s Southern Residents alive. Advocates say the Federal ...

The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just ...

Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor at William & Mary College, has spent her career exploring the depth of animals' emotional lives.

For a second time, the world watched as Tahlequah, an endangered southern resident killer whale, struggled to keep her dead newborn calf afloat in the Salish Sea. But with Ottawa failing to take ...

It would seem that the great white shark would be the undisputed top of the ocean’s food chain. Humans and sea creatures fear this monstrous apex predator with powerful jaws filled with razor-sharp ...

As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for ...

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In “Encounters with the Archdruid,” his narration of David Brower’s battles with developers, John McPhee writes: “[P]ossibly the reaction to dams is so violent because rivers are the ...