In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...

Tahlequah, the mother orca famous for carrying her dead calf ... Whale Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) witnessed the mother carrying her deceased child on ...

An endangered orca mother has been carrying her dead newborn calf on her snout for nearly a week around Washington’s Puget Sound. Whale watchers ... a dead calf on her nose for 17 days and ...

While it's not common, J35 isn't the only whale to have carried a dead calf, Dr. Michael Weiss, research director at the Center for Whale Research told CBS News. "What made J35's case in 2018 ...

Two rare female whales have been documented off the coast of Florida, each with a calf, marine surveyors said. The 20-year-old whale mothers, named Blackheart and Caterpillar, were seen Dec. 30 ...

She nudged her nose under her lifeless ... Tahlequah gave birth to her newest calf — a daughter — on Dec. 20. They don’t know precisely why the young whale died less than two weeks later ...

Scientists initially spotted the whale mom, known both as Tahlequah and J35, with a new female calf on Friday, Dec. 20 but were worried about the health of the baby when they got out on the water ...

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 ...

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 ...

KIHEI (HawaiiNewsNow) - A whale calf that beached itself on Maui did not survive the night. The baby humpback whale was found stranded inside the reef just off Halama Street in Kihei Thursday evening.

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 ...

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 ...