An endangered orca mother has been carrying her dead newborn calf on her snout for nearly a week around Washington’s Puget ...

Tahlequah first garnered worldwide recognition in 2018 when the killer whale carried her dead calf on the back for 17 days.

State officials said the body of a whale calf was found on a Maui beach Friday. Courtesy photo State officials were notified Friday morning of a newborn humpback whale calf that was found dead on ...

The mother whale’s display of grief-like emotion — carrying the dead calf on her nose and fore back — mirrors behavior she exhibited in 2018 when she would not abandon another of her dead ...

When her second calf died shortly after birth in 2018, J35 carried the infant whale’s body with her over hundreds of miles, either gently pushing it along with her nose or holding its flipper in ...

Federal and state officials are recovering the carcass of a humpback whale calf from the shores of Kihei, Maui. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources says it is a deceased humpback ...

Researchers spotted Tahlequah the killer whale swimming with her new calf, J61, on Dec. 20. The baby whale died a little over a week later Sabienna Bowman is a Digital News Editor at PEOPLE ...

Federal and state officials are recovering the carcass of a humpback whale calf from the shores of Kihei, Maui. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources says it is a deceased humpback whale ...

WASHINGTON – A bereaved female killer whale who carried her dead calf for more than two weeks ... she was seen sometimes nudging its body with her nose and sometimes gripping it with her mouth ...

The mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post.

The calf had died shortly after it was born, and the mother and her closely knit pod of whales were seen taking turns carrying the dead body.The research center said roughly two weeks ago that it ...