Here is yet another story to remind us how little we understand about orcas, also known as killer whales. We are still scratching our heads over why Iberian orcas attack sailboats near Gibraltar or why orcas off South Africa attack and kill sharks, including great whites, and eat only their livers.
Now, it appears that orcas on the Northwest Pacific coast of North America have started wearing salmon hats again, bringing back a bizarre trend first described in the 1980s.
Live Science reports that scientists and whale watchers last month photographed a 32-year-old male orca known as J27 Blackberry in South Puget Sound and off Point No Point in Washington State swimming with dead fish on his head.
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Happy Thanksgiving to those on this side of the pond and below the 49th parallel. (The Canadians celebrated the holiday in October.)
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Early Monday morning, a 1,170km (730-mile) telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany was severed, while a 218km internet link between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island stopped working on Sunday.
An interesting story from the 
In November 1878, the wooden schooner 
On the chart, it was marked as a shipwreck in the Pacific Ocean near the Solomon Islands, but when scientists and filmmakers from the 
Last Saturday morning at Pier 88 on the Hudson River, the US Navy commissioned its newest destroyer, 
In 1964, pop-artist Andy Warhol shocked the art world by making hundreds of replicas of supermarket cartons and presenting them as art. He painted screenprints of soup cans, then sculptures of packaging for Kellogg’s cornflakes and Heinz ketchup. Among the most notorious were his sculptures of 
A sad account that reinforces an old lesson, while also highlighting an unexpected risk of social media. 
The first American naval ship lost in World War II was not sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Over a month before, on October 31, 1941, the destroyer 
In August of last year, we bade a sad farewell to the 
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