San Diego Scientists Believe They've Discovered A New Species Of Killer Whales | Gary Robbins

03/08/19 • 13 min

San Diego scientist who led an expedition into dangerous waters off Chile collected tissue samples that could prove the existence of a graceful new species of killer whale, ending decades of mystery.
Robert Pitman of NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SFSC) in La Jolla gathered the samples in January from three of the animals, which some researchers believe are the largest scientifically unidentified animals on Earth.
The samples will be brought to SFSC so scientists can genetically determine if the rarely seen whales, known as Type D, are different from other orcas.
The Type D are also believed to be smaller than other types of killer whales, although that fact has yet to be confirmed.
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Documents Show Attorneys, Journalists And Advocates Monitored By Border Officials | Kate Morrissey

Documents published Wednesday indicate that the federal government has monitored a group of journalists, attorneys, advocates and activists who interacted with a migrant caravan that arrived in Tijuana late last year.
NBC7 in San Diego published leaked documents Wednesday indicating that the U.S. government has kept dossiers on a group of 59 advocates, activists, attorneys and journalists it is investigating in relation to the migrant caravan that arrived in Tijuana in November.
Many of those in the dossier appeared in previous articles by The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and The Intercept talking of frequent interrogations at the border or being denied entry to Mexico.
The published documents indicate that officials placed alerts on some of the people in the group and canceled visas or SENTRI passes for others.
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