Tahlequah, an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles in 2018, lost another calf recently and is grieving the death in a similar way.

Tahlequah, an orca whale who carried her dead calf for 17 days in 2018, is grieving another loss. On Jan. 3, researchers confirmed that Tahlequah lost another calf and is once again carrying her baby's body through the ocean,

In December, news broke that Tahlequah, the orca who famously carried her dead calf for 17 days, had given birth. Sadly, it appears that the new calf has died.

In 2018, scientists documented the same orca mother carrying her dead calf for 17 days across more than 1,000 miles of water.

PUGET SOUND — You may remember orca mother, known as Tahlequah or J35, who carried her dead calf with her for 17 days in 2018 in a sign of grief. Sadly, the orca mother was recently seen carrying her newly deceased calf in Puget Sound off the coast of western Washington.

An orca has been spotted carrying the body of its deceased calf. The orca named Tahlequah, first gained global attention in 2018, when she did a similar gesture when her previous female newborn died.

Scientists were hopeful that the calf, known as J61 would survive, despite the health complications but the situation turned pear-shaped quickly.

The calf, J61, was pictured on December 20 A bereaved female killer whale who carried her dead calf for more than two weeks in 2018 has again lost a newborn and is bearing its body, US marine researchers said.

An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that carried her dead calf for over two weeks in 2018 is doing so once again following the death of her new calf

A mother killer whale who famously pushed the body of her dead newborn for 17 days in 2018 has lost another calf, and researchers say she is again carrying the body in an apparent act of grief.