Newborn orca calf J62 was spotted swimming alongside family members near British Columbia in photos released yesterday by the ...

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.

Tahlequah is one of 73 endangered Southern Resident orcas, a killer whale population that lives in three pods − J, K an L − along the Salish Sea near British Columbia and Washington State.

This year’s Treaty Day Film Festival offers the first local chance to see “Resident Orca,” the documentary that follows the ...

In 2018, an orca in the Pacific Ocean’s Southern Resident population named Tahlequah refused to let go of her dead calf, ...

While no significant data are available to suggest why Tahlequah may have lost two calves within her lifetime, orca pregnancies are fraught with challenges. Nearly 70% of pregnancies in the Southern ...

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 ...

The mother orca that has been carrying her dead calf in the waters of B.C. was spotted earlier this week, making it at least ...

For at least 11 days, a mother killer whale has been carrying the body of her dead newborn calf. Only a handful of days old, ...