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This loss, researchers describe as ‘devastating’ for the already struggling population, which has dropped to an alarming number of 73 A recent federal assessment confirmed by the Centre for Whale ...

Off Baja California, in Mexico, a killer whale named after an Aztec emperor is leading his pod on routine takedowns of the largest fish in the sea: whale sharks. There have been isolated reports in ...

The female killer whale J35 with her newborn calf J61, who died. Photograph: Center for Whale Research A grieving killer whale, known for swimming over 1,000 miles while carrying the body of her dead ...

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.

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.

The Center for Whale Research first became aware of the new calf, named J61, on Dec. 20 Maya Sears, NMFS/NOAA Permit 27052 Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him ...

Just before Christmas, the killer whale was spotted swimming with a new calf in the Puget Sound waterway in Washington, US. Advert This was the second calf J35 had given birth to since her 2018 ...

Gianluca Di Gioia, 48, from Rome, was snorkeling with a pal at a beach near the Sataya Resort on the Red Sea in Egypt when ...

In 2018, researchers observed J35 pushing her dead calf along for 17 days, propping it up for more than 1,000 miles.