A mother orca is mourning the loss of her recently deceased calf in a very public manner. On Friday, Sept. 12, a southern resident killer whale identified as J36 was spotted traveling through the ...

He helped fight to free the whales known as the Budd Inlet Six. It was the last time orcas were captured in United States ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The southern resident orcas have a new member in one of their pods! A new calf was spotted with the K Pod on Tuesday afternoon.

Is it her grief ... or ours? As she carried her dead calf for the ninth straight day, Tahlequah the mother orca whale has captured the world’s attention. People have responded to her plight with poems ...

PUGET SOUND, Wash. (KING) – An iconic Pacific Northwest species continues to struggle, and the concerns continue to rise as a recently born orca calf went missing and is presumed to be dead. The new ...

EASTSOUND, Wash. (AP) — Once again, an endangered orca in Washington state has been seen carrying her dead newborn calf in an apparent effort to revive it. Researchers with the Center for Whale ...