Mother orca Tahlequah has been carrying her dead calf, a daughter, for at least 11 days, according to local news outlets.

Killer whales, or orcas, have long been recognized as some of the most intelligent creatures in the ocean. Known for their ...

THE “world’s loneliest orca” who has been trapped in a tiny pool for 32 years is experiencing the “worst form of torture”, experts claim. A devastating video shows Kshamenk barely able ...

Researchers have made an interesting discovery off the South African coast: they found that orcas have driven great white ...

While fishing off the coast of Honduras in 2023, a group of anglers stumbled upon a rare sight: a pod of orcas hunting down a ...

In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...

Recordings of Wikie capture her attempts to mimic the human speaking to her, and while admittedly some of the attempts sound ...

Orcas are protected under Canada's Marine Mammal Regulations and all but one of the five killer whale populations in the country are now listed under the Species at Risk Act. The Canadian ...

drawing attention to the critically endangered southern resident killer whales. Researchers say this behavior is a sign of grief. Dr. Deborah Giles, science and research director at Wild Orca ...

This year’s Treaty Day Film Festival offers the first local chance to see “Resident Orca,” the documentary that follows the ...

A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and ...

There are five types of killer whale in Antarctica, but only three found in these waters, near the peninsula south of South ...