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

The CWR said this behavior was seen previously in 2018 when she carried the body of her dead calf for 17 days.

The baby, J61, an endangered Southern Resident killer whale, only lived about a week and has been dead for several days, according to officials. It marks the second loss out of four births for ...

Mother orca Tahlequah has been carrying her dead calf, a daughter, for at least 11 days, according to local news outlets.

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 ...

The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident population, a federally protected endangered group of fish-eating killer whales stretching from British ...

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 ...

The Center for Whale Research first became aware of the new calf, named J61, on Dec. 20 Maya Sears, NMFS/NOAA Permit 27052 Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him ...

In December, the center determined Tahlequah had given birth again, identifying the newborn girl as J61. "New Year's Eve 2024 was a day of extreme highs and lows," the center wrote in a Wednesday ...

They mistakenly believed it was J61, the newest member of the Northwest’s endangered killer whales. She had not been seen for nearly a week. On Dec. 24, researchers had expressed concern that ...

The Center for Whale Research (CWR) confirmed that J61, a female calf born just before Christmas, has died. "New Year's Eve 2024 was a day of extreme highs and lows," the CWR shared in a Facebook ...

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