The orca who captured global attention in 2018 by carrying her deceased calf for 17 days has faced another heartbreaking loss ...

The end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 brought bittersweet and exciting updates on Southern Resident killer whales.

A grieving orca mother who made headlines more than six years ago for carrying her dead newborn calf for 17 days after its death is sadly repeating history after the death of her newest calf in recent ...

Orca researchers hope the Southern Resident population can grow to 80 to 90 whales in the next 50 years, which experts say will help them breathe a sigh of relief.

Two newborn calves joined the Northwest's endangered orcas in December. By New Year’s Eve, one of them was dead and being ...

The CWR said this behavior was seen previously in 2018 when she carried the body of her dead calf for 17 days.

J61's death is especially poignant because this is the second time its mother, Tahlequah, has lost her calf. Tahlequah, or J35, broke hearts around the world after she carried her dead calf for 17 ...

Tahlequah is once again carrying a dead calf, researchers said, as she did in 2018 in a 17-day, 1,000-mile tour that shocked ...

Tahlequah’s new calf was especially important as it was a female. The birth also was of symbolic importance to the region. Tahlequah is the mother orca who carried her calf that lived only a half-hour ...

Tahlequah, the killer whale who carried her dead calf and swam with him for 17 days in 2018, has likely suffered another loss ...

J61’s birth was of symbolic importance to the region. Her mother was Tahlequah, who 2018 carried her dead calf 1,000 miles ...

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