Yahoo!News: Researchers are learning a lot about the lives of orcas from the deaths of orcas, thanks to a team of experts from British Columbia and the United States.
Though killer whale carcasses are on occasion found washed up on beaches around the North Pacific, few tests were being done to figure out why or how.
The lack of information became a real concern when researchers noticed an alarming drop in the 1990s in the population of southern resident killer whales found around southern Vancouver Island...