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.

A killer whale was spotted balancing a salmon on its head. It’s not clear what the behavior means, but orcas were observed doing the same thing in the 1980s.

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.. The orca ...

Killer whales are known for their intelligence and power, even an inclination to sink yachts. Now, research is showing how they take down prey that few other animals can. Orcas in Mexico's Gulf of ...

The California Killer Whale Project helped identify the orcas as CA45, CA45B, CA46D, CA216, CA216A, CA216D, CA216D1, CA216E and CA216F, a group that isn’t seen together very often, the whale ...

Killer whale becomes mom for first time. See her ‘little pumpkin’ swim off Washington. Helena Wegner. Wed, March 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM UTC. 2 min read.

In 1992, a colleague had returned from a fishing trip in Baja with a story about seeing two killer whales attacking a whale shark. But Ms. Schulman-Janiger was never able to confirm the event.

One killer whale was caught this season by trawlers targeting flatfish in the Bering Sea, down from nine last year. The trawlers had deployed underwater web fences to try to keep killer whales ...

A Pygmy killer whale — rarely seen in the shallow waters that surround the Florida Keys — was found injured, sick and stranded just off a beach in the island chain on Sunday, a local marine ...