The sight of an orca clinging to her dead calf for a heartwrenching reason turned out to be a way of coping with loss, just like humans.

A killer whale mom, who shot to fame after she carried her dead calf’s corpse with her for more than two weeks in a harrowing tale of grief, has lost another baby, scientists revealed.

Divers off the coast of La Jolla made an extraordinary discovery last week when they spotted the carcass of a baby whale on ...

Though the baby was no longer breathing ... female orcas can give birth to just one calf roughly every five years. But the Center for Whale Research has observed that many southern resident ...

A killer whale, which captured the world's attention in 2018 when it was spotted pushing the dead body of its newborn calf for 17 days, appears to be grieving again. The whale, known as Tahlequah, has ...

Researchers said J35, also known as Tahlequah, was spotted Jan. 10 in Haro Strait off San Juan Island with the body of her ...

Researchers have not yet determined the sex of the new calf or the baby whale's mother. Tahlequah, the Grieving Orca Who Carried Her Dead Newborn 1,000 Miles, Gives Birth to a New Calf On Monday ...

Maybe the story of the orca mom and her dead calf spoke to me when it made headlines six years ago because I was swimming ...

It’s Caterpillar’s first baby and the second for Blackheart ... Another female right whale with a calf was documented near Amelia Island on Dec. 9, McClatchy News previously reported.

Tahlequah previously carried another dead newborn for 17 days in 2018. Here's what she's taught us about how orcas deal with death.

Previously, she had carried another deceased baby on her back (NOAA Fisheries ... Scientists had been conserved about the calf based on her behavior (Center for Whale Research/Facebook) Scientists ...

NOAA Fisheries West Coast An orca whale mother has kept her dead calf by her side for at least 11 days. Tahlequah (who is also known as her alpha-numeric designation, J35) previously made ...