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It’s Official: Orcas and Dolphins Have Crossed the “Point of No Return” for Living on Land Once Again

A recent study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B confirms that dolphins and orcas have reached a point in their evolutionary path where returning to land is no longer biologically ...
The New York Times

An Island Cabin Touched by Lots of Hands

How artisans in a corner of the Pacific Northwest turned a rocky retreat into a permanent residence. The 1,500-square-foot cabin on Orcas Island built for Traci and Lucas Donat was a project by ...
Live Science

Living lunch box? Iceland orcas are unexpectedly swimming with baby pilot whales, but it's unclear why.

Newborn pilot whales have been spotted mysteriously swimming among pods of orcas. Scientists are trying to puzzle out how the pilot whale calves got there and what happened to them. When you purchase ...
Post Register

Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas

SAN JUAN ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fiber-optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish ...