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 ...

Monterey Bay Whale Watch said more than 1,500 dolphins were spotted by the company's scouting boat when it went out to perform a survey.

One of the most compelling examples of animal grief she discusses is the case of Tahlequah, an orca whose “grief swim” in 2018, and now again in 2025, has captured global attention and ...

Photo from Felix Rottmann, UnSplash 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 sperm whale. The underwater attack ...

In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...

The orca gave birth to another calf on Sept. 4, 2020, a male who was named J57. The Center for Whale Research described the newborn as "healthy and precocious, swimming vigorously alongside its ...