The mother orca, known as J35 or Tahlequah, is a Southern Resident killer whale in the Salish Sea off the coast of British Columbia and northwest Washington State. In July, scientists counted 73 ...

Hanson said that J35 was draping the dead calf across her snout or on top of her head and that she appeared to dive for it when it sank from the surface. He pointed out that the calf was only alive ...

The mother whale, known as J35 aka Tahlequah, was seen with the new calf on December 20 but on Wednesday (Jan 1), it could be photographed, carrying the baby whale's carcass on her head.

Researchers say that the killer whale’s newborn calf in Puget Sound has also died and she’s unable to let go. By Adeel Hassan The mother orca nudges her dead calf with her snout, draping it ...

“The entire team at the Center for Whale Research is deeply saddened by this news and we will continue to provide updates when we can,” the post said.In 2018, researchers observed J35 pushing ...

The Center for Whale Research said in a New Year's Day post on social media that the mother known as Tahlequah, or J35, has now lost two of her four documented calves. The centre had announced on ...

In this photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, the orca known as J35 (Tahlequah) carries the carcass of her dead calf in the waters of Puget Sound off West Seattle, Wash., on Wednesday, Jan. 1 ...

The mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post.

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 ...

J35, a southern resident killer whale also known as Tahlequah, carried her child's body on her head for 17 days across a distance of 1,000 miles in 2018, according to the Center for Whale Research.

In this photo provided by NOAA Fisheries, the orca known as J35 (Tahlequah) carries the carcass of her dead calf in the waters of Puget Sound off West Seattle, Wash., on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.

Just a week earlier, researchers had proudly announced this new member of J pod, delivered by J35, Tahlequah. She is the whale who carried the body of her deceased calf for 17 days, traveling ...