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

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

A killer whale that sparked hope after being seen with a new calf six years after carrying her dead baby around has lost ...

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

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 ...

Tahlequah, an orca mother known as J35, was observed carrying her dead calf across the waters near Washington State. The U.S.

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.

“It’s a very tragic tour of grief,” Center for Whale Research founder Ken Balcomb told public broadcaster NPR at the time. The centre said the loss of the latest female newborn was “particularly ...

Animal lovers around the world have joined a southern resident killer whale in mourning after the news broke that she had ...