Photo: Pixabay 2. Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia If you're after a whale encounter with a bit of sunshine, Hervey Bay in Queensland is a must. It's widely regarded as one of the best places in ...

Potential Mitigation Strategies The female killer whale J35 with her newborn calf J61, who died. Photograph: Center for Whale Research. Image via The Guardian. As authorities and researchers confront ...

The whale marks the fourth gray whale to wash up in San Francisco Bay this year People view a dead gray whale that washed up on the shoreline of the Robert W. Crown Memorial State Beach in Alameda ...

J63 is the fourth Southern Resident killer whale calf born in the last 12 months, preceded by L128 (born in September to L90 “Ballena” but only surviving a few weeks), J61 (J35 “Tahlequah”’s calf who ...

A minke whale that spent the last week swimming in Long Beach Harbor despite efforts by marine wildlife experts to reroute it back to deeper waters died this weekend, officials confirmed. Michael ...

Tahlequah, also known as J35, with her dead calf.NOAA (via NBC News) Tahlequah was first spotted with her new calf, named J61, on December 20th. But just days later, researchers observed her carrying ...

In the deep blue water, a one-month-old humpback whale nuzzles up to its mother. Then, a cloud of dark yellow urine gushes into the water, like a golden smoke bomb, and everything becomes tinged ...

J61 was born in late 2024, and died just weeks later. Its mother, J35, carried the body for roughly two weeks afterwards. At the time, researchers told CHEK News they believed it was a sign of grief.

Another calf, initially dubbed J61, born around Christmas 2024 to J35, a killer whale known as Tahlequah, died in the new year. J35 was seen carrying the body of J61 with her for several days.

The Northwest Fisheries Science Center confirmed that Tahlequah — identified scientifically as J35 — was photographed with a new calf called J61 on Dec. 23, 2024.

A 400-pound, 7-foot-long, orange-and-black newborn may have already set the record for Kitsap’s largest baby of the year, but its arrival has coincided with a tragic loss. Whale watchers Hongming ...

Tahlequah, the Southern Resident orca who carried her dead calf for 1,000 miles over 17 days in 2018, is mourning the loss of another newborn, raising concerns about her health.