Tahlequah is known to be the mother of another orca, J47, who is now around 14 years old, and also J57, a baby born two years after her 2018 loss. Killer whales typically reproduce every five years, ...

The baby, J61, an endangered Southern Resident killer whale, only lived about a week and has been dead for several days, according to officials. It marks the second loss out of four births for ...

Experts say Southern Resident Orca “Ocean Sun” will soon turn 100 years old and is considered the oldest orca in the world.

Previously, she had carried another deceased baby on her back (NOAA Fisheries) After the orca had her calf die in 2018, she carried her baby’s body on her back for an unprecedented 17 days and ...

Researchers have not yet determined the sex of the new calf or the baby whale's mother. Tahlequah, the Grieving Orca Who Carried Her Dead Newborn 1,000 Miles, Gives Birth to a New Calf On Monday ...

The Southern Resident orca Tahlequah, who carried the body of her dead baby on her head for 17 days in 2018, has lost another calf known as J61. KING’s Sharon Yoo speaks with whale watchers in ...

Maybe the story of the orca mom and her dead calf spoke to me when it made headlines six years ago because I was swimming ...

Though the baby was no longer breathing ... In 2018, the endangered orca known as Tahlequah carried the body of her dead calf for at least 17 days, traversing more than 1,000 miles of ocean ...

Baby orcas always face long odds of survival ... of a female means to the potential for SRKW (southern resident killer whale) recovery." ...

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 ...

An orca who made headlines for mourning her dead calf in a unique two-week “tour of grief” is responding to her latest deceased newborn in the same way, a heart-wrenching photo shows.