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

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

Tahlequah, an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles in 2018, lost another calf recently and ...

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

“It’s so much harder to see now that she has lost another one,” said Brad Hanson, a research scientist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, part of the National Oceanic and ...

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, Tahlequah.

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

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By New Year's Day, officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were able to confirm that J35 was carrying her calf’s dead body, said Brad Hanson, a research scientist with ...

"We were able to confirm that J31 had in fact lost the calf and she was pushing it around on her head, much like what was happening in 2018," Brad Hanson, a research scientist with the NOAA ...