A New Study Suggests Orcas Are Actually Three Different Species

We’ve long assumed Orcas were a single species, but new research says otherwise.

Katrina Paulson
7 min readMay 30, 2024
Photo by Holger Wulschlaeger — Image Source: Pexels

I’m a millennial, which means at five years old, I was the prime audience for the blockbuster hit Free Willy when it came out in 1993. The movie is about the relationship between a boy and an orca in captivity named Willy…

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Katrina Paulson

I wonder about humanity, questions with no answers, and new discoveries. Then I write about them here and on substack! https://curiousadventure.substack.com