The appearance of a new orca calf in Washington’s Puget Sound last month was cause for celebration. The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident ...

At the time, after talking to local authorities, it was believed the young orca should be taken to the Mundo Marino team for rehabilitation. The aquarium added that specialists at the time ...

Tahlequah previously carried another dead newborn for 17 days in 2018. Here's what she's taught us about how orcas deal with death.

The appearance of a new orca calf in Washington's Puget Sound last month was cause for celebration. The young female, whom researchers named J61, was a new addition to the Southern Resident ...

Tahlequah, the orca whale also known as J35 ... but experts shared that the first year of life for a young killer whale is the most critical and dangerous. "I sort of thought at one point ...

The killer whale mother, who made headlines with her display of grief in 2018, has given birth again. But researchers have some worries for her new offspring.

An orca pregnancy typically lasts 17 months. Orca researchers say there’s no shortage of southern resident orcas getting pregnant, yet most young orcas die in the womb or shortly after birth.

Per The Seattle Times, researchers believe the mother orca's newborn calf, who the Center for Whale Research discovered the calf on Friday, Dec. 20, and given the alpha-numeric designation J61 ...