Tahlequah, an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles in 2018, lost another calf recently and ...

Orca is essentially meant to be a drone mothership. Its cargo hold has a capacity of 2,456 cubic feet, meaning it can bring ...

An orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018 seems to be repeating the behavior with a newly deceased baby whale.

J61’s birth was of symbolic importance to the region. Her mother was Tahlequah, who 2018 carried her dead calf 1,000 miles ...

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

An orca who made international headlines in 2018 ... The whales face several threats, including ship strikes, noise pollution, food sources, and inbreeding. “These whales are facing a lot ...

A new law went into effect Jan. 1 that extends the buffer zone around endangered Southern Resident killer whales, punishable ...

Two newborn calves joined the Northwest's endangered orcas in December. By New Year’s Eve, one of them was dead and being ...

An orca that carried her dead calf with her for ... agencies have invested more than $1 billion in programs to reduce the threats to the whales. But the bottom line remains: The southern residents ...

Orca researchers hope the Southern Resident population can grow to 80 to 90 whales in the next 50 years, which experts say will help them breathe a sigh of relief.

The orca who captured global attention in 2018 by carrying her deceased calf for 17 days has faced another heartbreaking loss.

A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf's corpse along with her for more than two weeks in a ...