The Center for Whale Research (CWR) confirmed in a New Year’s Day Facebook post that an orca calf a female initially ... be traveling with the J19 and J16 pods. “The same time the team ...

A bereaved female killer whale who carried her dead calf for more than two weeks in 2018 has again lost a newborn and is bearing its body, US marine researchers said. Scientists say whales are ...

ALSO SEE: J pod orca who pushed dead calf ... consisting of three pods: J, K, and L. During its census in July 2024, the Center for Whale Research counted just 73 Southern Resident orcas, which ...

She previously worked at POPSUGAR, Bustle and Scarymommy. Tahlequah, the orca whale also known as J35, who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is grieving once again. On Jan. 1, the Center ...

when conditions and movements of the whales allow. “Obviously, it’s a heartbreaking, tragic situation for not just her, but also for the population,” NOAA orca researcher Brad Hanson told KUOW.

An orca who drew international attention ... 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 ...

Researchers say that the killer whale’s newborn calf in Puget Sound has also died and she’s unable to let go. By Adeel Hassan The mother orca nudges her dead calf with her snout, draping it ...

The Center for Whale Research did not specify what sparked the concern, but the Seattle-based Orca Conservancy wrote on social media last year that researchers believed J61 was born prematurely.

An orca that made headlines for carrying a dead calf for more than two weeks in 2018 is doing it again after the death of her new calf. Hurricane-prone states The day in pictures Get the USA TODAY ...

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in ... The population of southern resident killer whales — three pods of fish-eating orcas that frequent the waters between ...