Tahlequah, the Southern Resident orca who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is mourning the loss of another newborn, ...

The calf was born in late December. Observing researchers noted unusual unspecified behaviors by mother and calf that led ...

Whale researchers in the Pacific Northwest reported a day of extreme highs and lows on the last day of 2024. On the low side, ...

Tahlequah first garnered worldwide recognition in 2018 when the killer whale carried her dead calf on the back for 17 days.

An endangered orca mother has been carrying her dead newborn calf on her snout for nearly a week around Washington’s Puget ...

Other Southern Resident orcas have been seen carrying dead calves but not for as long as Tahlequah did. In 2018, she carried ...

Six years ago, an endangered orca whale was spotted carrying a dead calf around on her head for over two weeks. Now, that ...

Two newborn calves joined the Northwest's endangered orcas in December. By New Year’s Eve, one of them was dead and being ...

The whale exibited what researchers call mourning behavior after the loss of her second calf since 2018. She carried that ...

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 mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the ...