The southern resident orca population marked the turn of the year with both heartbreak and hope: the death of a newborn calf ...

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

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

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 Dec. 24. Observing researchers noted unusual unspecified behaviors by mother and calf that led them to ...

In 2018, researchers observed J35 pushing her dead calf along for 17 days, propping it up for more than 1,000 miles. The calf ...

Warming ocean waters and climate change are impacting whales that travel through Southern California waters to Baja, Mexico. The changes are bringing more whales to the region, sometimes just feet ...

The mama orca, named J35 by researchers, was unable to let her calf ... to whale researchers who have been monitoring the pod of whales since the 1970s. Originally published as Killer whale ...

The orca who swam with her dead calf for 17 days ... census counted 73 whales.The Center for Whale Research said in a post on Facebook “The Southern Resident killer whale population needs ...

The Center for Whale Research received a report ... told FOX 13 Seattle the mortality rate for calves born to Southern Resident killer whales remains high, with approximately 50% not surviving.

26 (UPI) --The killer whale that carried her dead ... encounters for our research team to assess these whales, assign a designation for the new whale, and confidently determine who the mother of a ...