The killer whale pod in Mexico hunts and attacks much larger whale sharks by targeting them from below, a study finds Kelsey Williamson Orcas — also known as killer whales — are once again on ...

Tahlequah previously carried another dead newborn for 17 days in 2018. Here's what she's taught us about how orcas deal with death.

as well as new calf J62 when conditions and the movements of the whales allow." The CWR said the death of any calf in the Southern Resident Killer Whale population is a tremendous loss ...

The charismatic killer whale, or orca, is the totem species of northwest Washington and coastal British Columbia. This intelligent, social predator is known to form lasting social bonds and lives in ...

The Center for Whale Research first became aware of the new calf, named J61, on Dec. 20 Maya Sears, NMFS/NOAA Permit 27052 Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him ...

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

It was long thought that both species of right whale lived to 70 to 75 years of age at most, but the new study found that it was much longer. Southern right whales were calculated to have a median ...

Biologists from the New England Aquarium say 20 percent of all the right whales in the world are together, right now, off the ...

Anglers off the coast of Honduras captured rare footage of a pod of orcas eating a sperm whale, according to a new study.

Although we humans certainly do like to think of ourselves as smart, we only just discovered a new species of whale. The Rice's whale.