The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just ...

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 ...

The pod of killer whales that showed up Thursday, Jan. 30, have only been documented less than 10 times since 1993.

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 ...

Have you ever wondered whether your dog or cat experiences feelings of joy and sadness? How about whether or not wild animals love and grieve? Barbara J. King, an emerita professor of anthropology at ...

Orca advocates are begging federal leaders to help keep the Puget Sound’s Southern Residents alive. Advocates say the Federal ...

As the female orca known as Tahlequah once again carries the body of a dead calf through waters near Vancouver Island, for ...

The stories of salmon and orcas in the Pacific Northwest are linked. Their paths intermingle in a vast web of ecosystems and ...

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in another sign of ...

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