An endangered orca who carried her dead calf for over two weeks in 2018 is doing so once again following the death of her new calf.

An orca who made headlines for mourning her dead calf in a unique two-week “tour of grief” is responding to her latest deceased newborn in the same way, a heart-wrenching photo shows. Tahlequah, the ...

Tahlequah, the mother orca denoted as J35 who captured hearts worldwide in 2018 by carrying her dead calf for 17 days and over 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers), is once again displaying a similar act of ...

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.

Per The Seattle Times, researchers believe the mother orca's newborn calf, who the Center for Whale Research discovered the calf on Friday, Dec. 20, and given the alpha-numeric designation J61 ...

The team also noted that it is "eager to conduct follow-up observations" and that J35 is an experienced mother, but there are still some concerns about J61's survival. Tahlequah, the Orca Whale ...

The same whale that made world headlines in 2018 for pushing her dead newborn calf around for 17 days, has now spent at least ...

J35 is an experienced mother, and we hope that she is able to keep J61 alive through these difficult early days,” the post read. According to Orca Conservancy on X, worrying behavior had been ...