Tahlequah, an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles in 2018, lost another calf recently and ...

In a day of sadness and surprise, researchers on Puget Sound on Tuesday found J61, the new calf born to mother orca Tahlequah ...

“It’s so much harder to see now that she has lost another one,” said Brad Hanson, a research scientist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, part of the National Oceanic and ...

On the low side, they learned that a Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) calf, J61 died. Just a week earlier, researchers had proudly announced this new member of J pod, delivered by J35, Tahlequah.

In 2018, researchers observed J35 pushing her dead calf along for 17 days, propping it up for more than 1,000 miles. The calf ...

A southern resident orca is once again carrying her deceased baby's body through the water. Researchers are concerned about the future of this orca mother and her species.

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“To be back in that same position again it’s just truly traumatic for all of us, including the whale,” Brad Hanson, Research Scientist with NOAA Fisheries Northwest Fisheries Science Center ...

"We were able to confirm that J31 had in fact lost the calf and she was pushing it around on her head, much like what was happening in 2018," Brad Hanson, a research scientist with the NOAA ...

“It’s heartbreaking to see this again,” Brad Hanson, biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, wrote in an emai ...

By New Year's Day, officials with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were able to confirm that J35 was carrying her calf’s dead body, said Brad Hanson, a research scientist with ...