Trading ivory from a hippopotamus, narwhal, killer whale and sperm whale has been banned in the UK as part of conservation ...

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 ...

Researchers say that the killer whale’s newborn calf in Puget Sound ... and gripping its tiny fin with her teeth, to stave off the inevitable. Just as she did in 2018 — when she spent 17 ...

J35, a southern resident killer whale also known as Tahlequah, carried her child's body on her head for 17 days across a distance of 1,000 miles in 2018, according to the Center for Whale Research.

After consulting with federal authorities, rescuers decided the most humane course of action was to euthanize the animal.

Tahlequah is one of 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas, a killer whale population that lives in three pods − J, K an L − along the Salish Sea near British Columbia and Washington State.

OF the over 40 dolphin species, killer whales (orcas) are the largest, while bottlenose dolphins are the most common.

A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf’s corpse with her for more than two weeks in a harrowing tale of grief, has lost another baby, scientists revealed.

She went on to successfully rear two other calves. But now, Tahlequah, part of a struggling group called the southern resident killer whale population, appears to be grieving another calf.

The CWR said the death of any calf in the Southern Resident Killer Whale population is a tremendous loss, but the death of J61 is especially devastating. "The death of J61 is particularly ...

“According to the anglers, the attack was already underway when they arrived as the killer whales were observed ... an hour as the orcas sank their teeth into their hard-won meal.