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

An orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018 seems to be repeating the behavior with a newly deceased baby whale.

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is ...

The end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 brought some bittersweet calf news as well as an exciting update for the community that follows Southern Resident killer whales ... enough to eat, so that ...

J35, a southern resident killer whale also known as Tahlequah, carried her child's body on her head for 17 days across a distance of 1,000 miles in 2018, according to the Center for Whale Research.

They live in three pods — called J, K and L — and have evolved to eat mostly fish, including prized Chinook salmon. Beginning in the 1960s, many southern resident killer whales were killed or ...

Orcas are one of several species of whale and dolphin that have been observed carrying dead offspring. NOAA will continue to monitor Tahlequah's pod, which is called "J Pod." Despite the tragic ...

According to the wildlife charity Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC), Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins, spinner dolphins, orcas, Australian humpback dolphins and sperm whales have all been ...

The female killer whale J35 with her newborn calf J61, who died. Photograph: Center for Whale Research A grieving killer whale, known for swimming over 1,000 miles while carrying the body of her dead ...