A whale watching boat recently spotted a large group of orcas, also called killer whales, off the northern Channel Islands.

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The skeleton, recovered from a 2015 Gold Beach stranding, will be suspended in a swimming pose in the center's east courtyard ...

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More than 10km deep, 80km wide and 1,375km long – the Tonga Trench in the South Pacific Ocean is truly enormous.