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 ...

In 2018, the endangered orca known as Tahlequah carried the body ... They don’t know precisely why the young whale died less than two weeks later, but it had been clear that the orange-tinged ...

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

Earlier this year, a two-year-old orca was seen circling a Canadian lagoon for days, refusing to leave the area where its mother died on the shore. The young whale's mother, named Spong ...

This week, mother orca Tahlequah may have surpassed her 2018 tour of grief, during which she carried her dead calf for 17 ...

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 ...

An orca who drew international attention when she ... but none of them have clung to their young quite as long as Tahlequah. "It's usually been kind of one-off observations within a particular ...

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.

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 ...