An endangered whale was spotted off Washington carrying her calf’s deceased body over a week after the baby was first ...

In a day of sadness and surprise, researchers on Puget Sound on Tuesday found J61, the new calf born to mother orca Tahlequah ...

Tahlequah, a mother orca who gained fame in 2018 for carrying her deceased calf on her back, has lost another child — and ...

The nature photographer had gone out looking for J61 to confirm she was still alive. “I yelled out to others on the beach, ...

A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf’s corpse along with her for more than two weeks in a ...

The killer whale calf was spotted in the Puget Sound area off Washington state several days ago. On Tuesday, the center ...

Often it’s an orca’s first baby that dies because the new mother doesn’t know exactly what to do, Trites said. Tahlequah is obviously a caring mother — or she wouldn’t have tried to keep ...

Previously, she had carried another deceased baby on her back (NOAA Fisheries) After the orca had her calf die in 2018, she carried her baby’s body on her back for an unprecedented 17 days and ...

Tahlequah’s new calf was especially important as it was a female. The birth also was of symbolic importance to the region.

An orca that carried her dead calf with her for days in 2018 appears to be repeating the behavior with a newly deceased baby whale. Scientists think the killer whale is likely to be expressing grief.

Whale watchers were relieved to see a baby orca off the Kitsap Peninsula’s Point No Point Monday afternoon. They mistakenly believed it was J61, the newest member of the Northwest’s endangered ...