Whale J35 (known as Tahlequah) seen supporting the dead calf in 2018 A killer whale, which captured the world's attention in 2018 when it was spotted pushing the dead body of its newborn calf for ...
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.
North Atlantic right whales were subject to "Yankee whaling," which ended around 1910, he said. Given the animals' slow rate of reproduction, the small number of whales that weren't hunted were ...
The end of 2024 and beginning of 2025 brought some bittersweet calf news as well as an exciting update for the community that follows Southern Resident killer whales, also known as orcas.
Just before Christmas, the killer whale was spotted swimming with a new calf in the Puget Sound waterway in Washington, US. Advert This was the second calf J35 had given birth to since her 2018 ...
An orca that carried her dead baby across 1,000 miles of ocean for more than two weeks has tragically lost another calf. The killer whale, named J35 by researchers studying her, welcomed a daughter ...
Whales of all kinds travel the so-called whale superhighway off the Southern California coast. Experts say the changing seas are bringing a wide range and growing number of behemoths to the ...
Southern right whales have lifespans that reach well past 100 years, and 10% may live past 130 years, according to our new research published in the journal Science Advances. Some of these whales ...
KITTY HAWK, N.C. — Experts who conducted a necropsy on a juvenile humpback whale that washed ashore Friday in Kitty Hawk said there were some unusual findings, but full results could take a ...