Tahlequah, the mother orca denoted as J35 who captured hearts ... Her newest calf, a female known as J61 to researchers, was first spotted on December 20 in the Puget Sound area on Washington ...

Researchers spotted Tahlequah the killer whale swimming with her new calf, J61, on Dec. 20. The baby whale died a little over a week later Tahlequah, the orca whale also known as J35, who carried ...

The Center for Whale Research did not specify what sparked the concern, but the Seattle-based Orca Conservancy wrote on social media last year that researchers believed J61 was born prematurely.

About 50% of orca babies die within a year. “The death of any calf in the [Southern Resident killer whales] population is a tremendous loss, but the death of J61 is particularly devastating ...

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 ...

The Southern Resident orca Tahlequah, who carried the body of her dead baby on her head for 17 days in 2018, has lost another calf known as J61. KING’s Sharon Yoo speaks with whale watchers in ...

Tahlequah, the mother orca who touched hearts worldwide in 2018 by carrying her dead calf for 17 days, has experienced another tragic loss. The Center for Whale Research (CWR) confirmed that J61 ...

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

Researchers note that the killer orca birthed J61 unusually soon after her last one and may not have had time to physically recover. 'It is a concern that she was expending a lot of energy to ...

Tahlequah, the orca whale also known as J35 ... Research confirmed that Tahelequah's latest calf, a female dubbed J61, has died and is being carried through the ocean by her mother.

An orca who made headlines for mourning her dead ... the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The baby, J61, an endangered Southern Resident killer whale, only lived about a ...