Scientists think they may have spotted a mysterious orca species that has rarely been heard of or se
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An elusive type of orca, rarely heard of and even more rarely seen, may have just been spotted in the wild.
In the icy waters off Cape Horn on the southern tip of Chile, scientists have filmed an entire pod of the legendary "Type D" orca.
Over the years, evidence of Type D has been sporadically collected. Tourist photographs. Fisherman tales. One mass stranding on Paraparaumu Beach in New Zealand in 1955. These sightings formed the basis of a 2010 paper describing this distinct group.
Just a few years ago, in 2015, researchers obtained the first known video footage of the orcas.
But now we're homing in. Scientists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) aboard the research vessel Australis got close enough to the orcas to take three tissue samples.
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