Surfers at a popular beach in the Waikato had an unforgettable encounter on Saturday when they were joined in the waves by a pod of playful orca whales. Video / Supplied After several recent orca ...

Males are bigger than females, but they both vary in size and weight. The largest orca ever recorded was a staggering 32 feet (9.8 meters) long and weighed 22,000 lbs. (10,000 kilograms).

Researchers say that the killer whale’s newborn calf in Puget Sound has also died and she’s unable to let go. By Adeel Hassan The mother orca nudges her dead calf with her snout, draping it ...

An orca who made headlines in 2018 after she carried her dead calf for more than two weeks was again spotted carrying the body of her newborn, just days after researchers confirmed she'd given birth.

In a day of sadness and surprise, researchers on Puget Sound on Tuesday found J61, the new calf born to mother orca Tahlequah, had not survived—and that a new calf had also been born to J pod.

Tragedy has again struck Tahlequah, the orca mom who captured the world’s attention in 2018 when she carried her dead calf on her head for 17 days. Her newest calf, a female, was first seen ...

An orca famous for carrying a dead calf around has once again been spotted with a deceased newborn on her head in Puget Sound, but there's some good news for her endangered southern resident ...

The appearance of a new orca calf in Washington’s Puget Sound last month was cause for celebration. The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident ...

Researchers spotted Tahlequah the killer whale swimming with her new calf, J61, on Dec. 20. The baby whale died a little over a week later Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE ...

Researchers are concerned about the health of a mother killer whale who is carrying her dead newborn, just as she did for 17 days in 2018 after losing an earlier baby. Brad Hanson, a research ...

The orca that captured worldwide attention in 2018 when she carried her deceased calf with her for 17 days appears to be grieving again. According to the Center for Whale Research, the mother ...

An orca who made headlines for mourning her dead calf in a unique two-week “tour of grief” is responding to her latest deceased newborn in the same way, a heart-wrenching photo shows.