Salmon are struggling to survive. So are the families of endangered southern resident orcas, with a population of just 73, ...

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 ...

Researchers at Saint Mary's University have acquired funding that will help them update a DNA database for the critically ...

Whales are the biggest creatures on Earth. These animals are found in every ocean, but that doesn't make them fish.

A young humpback whale that died, presumably, after it became trapped in a commercial mussel-farming line off Long Beach, Ca.

The organization's Marine Animal Rescue and Response Team was busier in the first nine months of 2024 than all of 2023, ...

The month of December brought the endangered Southern Resident killer whales sadness and joy.

The loss of Tahlequah’s new calf (“ Orca Tahlequah’s new baby dies ,” Dec. 31, Climate Lab) and her all-too-familiar grief are heart-wrenching. It would be easy to despair and feel powerless. But ...

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

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

A January 2025 article from the BBC’s Jasmin Fox-Skelly details numerous examples, from an elderly elephant shedding tears and eventually succumbing to grief after an elephant she had befriended died ...