It was the first known encounter involving a large pod of “offshore” killer whales, or orcas, in Monterey Bay since November ...

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.

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 ...

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.

The law aims to protect southern resident orcas from noise caused by all boat traffic that could affect their likelihood of hunting prey such as Chinook salmon.

Boaters in the region are far more likely to encounter “transient” orcas, which prey on other marine mammals, including gray whales. Offshore killer whales, as their ecotype association ...