A new state law is now in effect that provides a 1,000 yard vessel buffer around endangered southern resident orcas in ...

Under a new law, Washington boaters must stay 1,000 yards away from southern resident killer whales (SRKW) at all times. The ...

Center for Whale Research that, indeed, J-35 was swimming with a new baby calf and other J-pod orcas near north Alki Point in ...

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

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

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is ...

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

The mother orca nudges her dead calf with her snout, draping it over her head and gripping its tiny fin with her teeth, to stave off the inevitable.

The southern resident killer whale, known as Tahlequah, has now lost another calf in what the Center for Whale Research called “devastating” news.

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

On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf, J61 died. Just a week earlier, researchers had proudly announced this new member of J pod, delivered by J35, Tahlequah.