By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Up and down the Oregon coast, harbor seal pupping season is just getting underway. And while the sight of the small, helpless seals is arresting all by itself, it portends another annual marvel – the … [Read more...] about It’s seal pupping season along the Oregon coast — and more killer whales sightings by growing number of watchers
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Monday’s unusual and well-documented killing of gray whale calf by 11 orcas helps scientists learn more about marine predation
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews The lethal encounter between a pod of killer whales and two migrating gray whales off Oregon’s central coast this week is writing a new chapter in the scientific understanding of how two of the ocean’s largest … [Read more...] about Monday’s unusual and well-documented killing of gray whale calf by 11 orcas helps scientists learn more about marine predation
First major sighting this spring of killer whales in Yaquina Bay thrills photographers, tourists and orca researcher
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Jaklyn Larsen wasn’t planning to go for a run Monday, but that’s just what happened when the Florence-based professional photographer got word that a family of five killer whales was heading up the Yaquina … [Read more...] about First major sighting this spring of killer whales in Yaquina Bay thrills photographers, tourists and orca researcher