The Center of Whale Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) witnessed the mother carrying her ...

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

Other Southern Resident orcas have been seen carrying dead calves but not for as long as Tahlequah did. In 2018, she carried ...

The calf was born in late December. Observing researchers noted unusual unspecified behaviors by mother and calf that led ...

Tahlequah, an orca whale who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is grieving another loss. On Jan. 3, researchers ...

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

An endangered orca mother has been carrying her dead newborn calf on her snout for nearly a week around Washington’s Puget ...

An orca famous for carrying a dead calf around has once again been spotted with a deceased newborn on her head in Puget Sound, but there's some good news for her endangered southern resident killer ...

“As with last time, I think it’s enough to recognize how strong the mother-calf bond is in killer whales (among the strongest social relationships in any animal), and to see that she is clearl ...

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

“As with last time, I think it’s enough to recognize how strong the mother-calf bond is in killer whales (among the strongest social relationships in any animal), and to see that she is clearl ...

Tahlequah, the mother orca famous for carrying her ... had imbued the end of the year with some hope. The calf was female, and the killer whale population is endangered and matrilineal ...