Dec. 20, reports of a new orca baby had been spotted with J-pod. Over that weekend, the weather turned stormy, and the dark ...
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 orca mother has been carrying her dead newborn calf on her snout for nearly a week around Washington’s Puget ...
The bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is found in the icy waters of the Arctic. These are the longest-living mammals; some ...
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.
Tahlequah, an orca whale who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is grieving another loss. On Jan. 3, researchers ...
An endangered whale was spotted off Washington carrying her calf’s deceased body over a week after the baby was first ...
A grieving killer whale, who swam over 1,000 miles while carrying the body of her dead newborn, is once again carrying another calf's body ...