Tahlequah, the orca whale also known as J35, who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is grieving once again. On Jan. 1, the Center for Whale Research confirmed that Tahelequah's latest calf, a ...

An orca who made headlines for mourning her dead calf in a unique two-week “tour of grief” is responding to her latest ...

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in another sign of ...

Scientists have called Tahlequah's loss devastating, more so because the calf was a female, who could have one day potentially contributed to increasing the population of endangered killer whales.

“It’s a very tragic tour of grief,” Center for Whale Research founder Ken Balcomb told public broadcaster NPR at the time. The centre said the loss of the latest female newborn was “particularly ...